Date:	Thursday 20 February 1947
Time:	day
Type:	Supermarine Spitfire F Mk XIV
Owner/operator:	9 Sqn RIAF
Registration:	NH803
MSN:	6S 648273
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	RIAF Nagpur, Sonegaon, Nagpur, Maharashtra -   India
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RIAF Nagpur, Sonegaon, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Destination airport:	RIAF Nagpur, Sonegaon, Nagpur, Maharashtra

Narrative:
NH803: Spitfire FR XIV, MSN 6S 648273. Built by Vickers Armstrong (Supermarine) at Chattis Hill with Griffon G65 engine. To 6MU RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire 13-3-45. To 76MU RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire for packing and crating for overseas shipment 17-9-45. Shipped on the ss 'Ocean Viceroy' 24-9-45, arriving India 30-10-45. To ACSEA (Air Command South East Asia) 29-11-45. To 9 Squadron, RIAF in December 1945

Written off (damaged beyond repair) in a wheels-up belly landing at RIAF Nagpur, Sonegaon, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, 20-2-47. Pilot, Flt/Lt (IND/3173) Jafar Zaheer (then aged 23) Royal Indian Air Force uninjured.

To 59 SP for damage assessment on or before 28-2-47. Not repaired, struck off charge 26-6-47 as Cat. E(FA)

1. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.275
2. 9 Sqn RIAF ORB for the period 1-5-1945 to 30-6-1947: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR27/139/25: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8407802
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/spitfire/p080.html
4. https://www.avialogs.com/spitfire-and-seafire-registry/item/80014-nh803
5. https://allspitfirepilots.org/aircraft/NH803
6. https://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/Aircraft/NH803
7. https://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/3173
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Babasaheb_Ambedkar_International_Airport#History

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
20-May-2023 21:35	Dr. John Smith	Added
21-May-2023 15:46	Nepa	Updated