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Mark12
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Any more news on the identity of G.15-75?

To clarify. G.15-75 was a Spitfire TRAINER (That’s how Vickers referred, in upper case). I have three images of it so marked.

All I have on identity is that it was possibly 670 of the Egyptian Air Force, the mystery second Spitfire TRAINER that is refered to in some publications.

Of particular interest in the ‘Foote/Pharo’ documentation is a further list of Belgian Class B registrations from G.15-141 to G.15-170 with Belgian and RAF serials cross referred. This is the missing gap in the listing in the Andrews/Morgan ‘Supermarine Aircraft since 1914’ book. This list drives a ‘coach and horses’ through the published RAF/Belgian/Class B tie-ups. I shall be sitting on this for a while until the Belgian historians, who have been alerted, have delved more deeply in to this.

Mark