Cooper Air Race 1949 – Spitfires

I’ve just acquired the Weekend Edition of the recently-released Eduard “bubbletop” Spitfire Mk.XVI kit and, aside from being a kit fit to bursting with detail, it has two colour schemes for Spitfires used in the 1949 Cooper Trophy air race. One of which is the well-known SL718:

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The other, however, is for surviving Spitfire RW393:

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I can’t seem to find any mention of it in Spitfire Survivors Vol.2, and Google isn’t throwing anything up for me.

Anyone else?

If anyone’s interested, I intend on building models of both aircraft – the Eduard kit in SL718’s colours, with an Italeri kit going as RW393. Should be fun!