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Buchon query

I got the book “Spitfire: Icon of a Nation” for Christmas, and was flicking through it earlier when I found a picture of a Hispano Ha.1112M-1-L Buchon.

There appears to be a registration on the fuselage and beneath the wings – FH+DD (similar to D-FMBB’s markings). It appears to have dummy nose-mounted machine-guns, but not wing cannon. It has a three-blade propeller and spinner assembly.

The trouble is, I don’t recognise the aircraft. It has a similar camouflage scheme to the Memphis Belle Buchons, but it’s none of those:

G-BOML wore its Belle scheme up until the early 1990s, latterly complemented by a yellow nose for the TV series A Perfect Hero. It also had dummy wing-mounted cannons, but not nose-mounted machine-guns.

G-HUNN wore its Belle scheme up until 1995, at least, when it was used in the HBO film The Tusekegee Airmen. The spinner was painted yellow with a black spiral on it, and some of the camouflage pattern was altered, but essentially it was still in its film camo. It stayed that way until a truck reversed into it. The paint scheme it now wears (along with a different spinner assembly) is that of Adolf Galland’s Bf109F-4. It also did not have wing-mounted cannon, but instead had the machine-guns.

D-FEHD still had the wing fences and cannon fairings from its Spanish service days, as well as the four-blade prop assembly. I would have thought these fittings would have still been on the aircraft up until its conversion/rebuild as a Bf109G-10?

So, does anyone know anything else? I’ll try to scan the pic in later if anyone wants to see it.

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