I was reading an article in Air Classics last night about P-39 “Brooklyn Bum 2” a/c #993 and that it’s painted in the actual scheme that that serialled aircraft wore during the war. It got me thinking about how many other Warbirds are painted in their actual colors that they wore during their service life.
Gerry
By: Mark12 - 13th October 2004 at 19:00
AB910 AE-H 402 Squadron.
Mark
By: DazDaMan - 13th October 2004 at 18:34
Apart from that one 😉
By: Eddie - 13th October 2004 at 18:30
MK356. As I mentioned earlier :p
By: DazDaMan - 13th October 2004 at 18:02
Have any of the BBMF aircraft, aside from P7350, worn their service codes at all??
By: Mustang Fan - 13th October 2004 at 18:00
Same with PL965, just the D-Day stripes that are not right.
By: DazDaMan - 13th October 2004 at 17:59
TE566 did wear her authentic 312 Czech Squadron codes (although not sure if her D-Day stripe scheme was authentic??).
By: stewart1a - 13th October 2004 at 17:47
what about Miss Helen? she is an original schemed aircraft
By: DazDaMan - 13th October 2004 at 17:45
Fair enough! 😉
By: Mustang Fan - 13th October 2004 at 17:40
Ahhh, so MJ730 really did wear the GZ-? codes then? I always thought they’d based the scheme on a Spitfire XVIII of the same squadron
No – 730 was the original GZ-?
By: Swiss Mustangs - 13th October 2004 at 16:06
Swiss AF D-3801 J-143…
for example
Martin
By: DazDaMan - 13th October 2004 at 16:00
Ahhh, so MJ730 really did wear the GZ-? codes then? I always thought they’d based the scheme on a Spitfire XVIII of the same squadron (see previous thread ) – or so it said in one of Jeremy Flack’s books….:confused:
By: Mark12 - 13th October 2004 at 16:00
What about Seafire VP441? Isn’t she in her proper colour scheme?
Yes.
By: MRP - 13th October 2004 at 15:53
Jerry Yagen’s Spitfire MJ730 is in one of its original schemes. I do have a nice picture of it , but it is at home !! not work. I will post later
MRP
By: DazDaMan - 13th October 2004 at 15:51
What about Seafire VP441? Isn’t she in her proper colour scheme?
By: Black Knight - 13th October 2004 at 15:08
I’d guess at Mark Hanna in NH799
By: Olivier Lacombe - 13th October 2004 at 14:52
Yes, I saw SL721 before she was repainted and I prefered her in that smart blue scheme, her true one!!
Now she’s just ‘another’ Spit in camo, instead of THE blue Spit.
But still, a Spit is a Spit and I ain’t spitting on occasions to see her!
:p 😉
By: DazDaMan - 13th October 2004 at 14:43
Was gonna add that one, too! :p
By: DazDaMan - 13th October 2004 at 14:04
D’oh! :rolleyes:
By: Mark12 - 13th October 2004 at 14:03
Funny, I can’t think of a Griffon Spitfire that flies with an authentic (to that aircraft) paint scheme. Care to correct me?
PS853 – 16 Sqd.
Mark
By: Arm Waver - 13th October 2004 at 13:50
Piper L-4 Cub G-BGPD / 44-79744 / 49-M is utterly authentic…
Ok not a big warbird but they also served…
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