Probably for Mark12…..but you other chaps are clever too! I have a Spitfire undercarriage door part marked ‘337 and a load of other numbers’, hoping it is off a Mk IV Spit, it has been well shot up as it was a range target, my questions are:-
Is it Mk IV?
Or did Spits of subsequent marks use ‘older’ marked parts? i.e. could a Mk12 have MkIV marked parts?
The door top is quite unlike other Spit doors on other marks I have/have seen.
Which marks of Spit ended their days on Salisbury Plain as range targets?
Cheers and HNY to yo all!!:)
By: Rocketeer - 13th January 2007 at 22:08
well? Mark12??
By: Rocketeer - 11th January 2007 at 23:01
Here is the door part…well shot up!!!
By: Cees Broere - 7th January 2007 at 11:14
I agree.We have found MkVII part numbers in amongst our parts even though the Raaf didn,t have them in service.Many MkI parts carried over right through the series.
The ex Franco Actis Spit Mk VIII supposedly had a Mk VII wing fitted.
Cheers
Cees
By: QldSpitty - 7th January 2007 at 01:53
Carry over on parts
I agree.We have found MkVII part numbers in amongst our parts even though the Raaf didn,t have them in service.Many MkI parts carried over right through the series.
By: galdri - 7th January 2007 at 00:04
At least two Mk 22’s, PK518 and PK519, of which a substantial chunk of the latter, including the data plate, currently resides in my workshop.
Mark
So we will have a flying Mk.22 with “a thin but robust………”etc , flying in the near future:D 😀 😀
Will it be at Le….
Can you call a taxi please:D 😀
By: Mark12 - 6th January 2007 at 23:58
Which marks of Spit ended their days on Salisbury Plain as range targets?
At least two Mk 22’s, PK518 and PK519, of which a substantial chunk of the latter, including the data plate, currently resides in my workshop.
Mark
By: Rocketeer - 6th January 2007 at 22:43
I will post a piccy tomorrow…if I get time….digging a Stang!
By: Graham Adlam - 6th January 2007 at 21:08
part id
According to my records part number 337 was first introduced for MkIV Spit but of coarse it could have continued in later Mks unless the part was modified again. I have uploaded picture from a MK XIX if you tell me the number of the part you have in the drawing ill look up the part number for comparison.
By: bloodnok - 6th January 2007 at 20:16
will it be at legends?
(sorry, someone had to do it!)
By: Bruce - 6th January 2007 at 19:55
No, it doesnt tell you what Mark it came from, it tells you what mark it was designed for.
The Mk24 and 46 have plenty of 300 parts – originally designed for the Mk1
Post a piccie, and we can give an opinion!
Bruce
By: Rocketeer - 6th January 2007 at 19:21
Ta both….I have bits of the Tomahawks already as well as a Mohawk part, Battle & Blenheim. This is Spit…
By: scotavia - 6th January 2007 at 19:14
Several Curtiss Tomahawk ended up on the plain as targets so if its not Spitfire then perhaps the part numbers will match those.
By: JonathanF - 6th January 2007 at 19:04
“The History” tells me that there were only two, prototype “Mk.IV” Spits, which were adapted as Mk.XII and Mk.21 prototypes respectively. If that helps at all.
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