By: DazDaMan - 3rd September 2004 at 11:40
If you think that’s bad….
What we could have seen in Pearl Harbor (Melv will kill me for this! :D)
By: mike currill - 3rd September 2004 at 11:29
Shame it went to the US, but at least it’s still flying which is always good news
By: merlin70 - 3rd September 2004 at 11:23
Of course if they donated it to me I wouldn’t turn it down…..:)
Dan
Neither would I, but I’d get a more pleasing colour scheme applied at the first opportunity. :dev2:
By: Dan Johnson - 3rd September 2004 at 08:24
…and could I suggest that this was their sole source of reference material. :rolleyes:
Absolutely awful.
Mark
I was trying to be nice 🙂 As I didn’t want to start the “It’s their money, they can paint it any way they like….quit complaining” debate again.
And I agree, having seen it up close when it was based at Anoka County airport before the move to Arizona, the green is wrong, the gray is wrong, the markings are wrong, etc etc.
Of course if they donated it to me I wouldn’t turn it down…..:)
Dan
By: Mark12 - 3rd September 2004 at 08:15
Yep, it seemed like they took the paint scheme from the Matchbox 1/32nd Scale Spit 22/24 kit.
…and could I suggest that this was their sole source of reference material. :rolleyes:
Absolutely awful.
Mark
By: Stieglitz - 3rd September 2004 at 06:50
Very nice pics Mark 12. Only the second one I see of G-Fire in here Belgian AF sheme. 😎
Below you can see a pic of the spit taken in may 2004:
Pic by Buddy Arnold
J.V.
By: Dan Johnson - 3rd September 2004 at 05:07
Yes, she now flies at the Palm Springs Air Museum here in the states. Registered to Pond Warbirds LLC as N114BP. When I last saw it in the mid 90s it was painted in a blue/green cammo and marked as WZ*P. I’ll try and scan a photo in the next day or so.
Yep, it seemed like they took the paint scheme from the Matchbox 1/32nd Scale Spit 22/24 kit.
Better known as the all red Spencer Flack Spit XIV.
Dan
By: dj51d - 3rd September 2004 at 03:18
Yes, she now flies at the Palm Springs Air Museum here in the states. Registered to Pond Warbirds LLC as N114BP. When I last saw it in the mid 90s it was painted in a blue/green cammo and marked as WZ*P. I’ll try and scan a photo in the next day or so.
By: Woody - 3rd September 2004 at 00:10
Mark 12 – does it survive to this day?
Woody
By: SPIT - 2nd September 2004 at 23:20
THANK YOU GENT’S
By: Mark12 - 2nd September 2004 at 20:25
NH904
Wearing its Belgian Air Force guise as SG108 on the roof of the Ostend scrap dealer Oscar Dewachter, circa 1960 and outside the garage of Bunny Brooks at Hoylake, circa 1966.
Mark
By: Mark12 - 2nd September 2004 at 19:09
I am sure someone could help me out. Some years ago (many) I remember seeing a Spitfire on a Garage Roof at Hoylake (on the Wirral).
What I want to know is what happened to it and where is it now, I dont even know what Mk or type it was???
Mk XIV – NH904/SG108/G-FIRE.
Not on he garage roof as such but on the forecourt. It came from the roof of a scrapyard building in Ostend Belgium.
I’ll dig out a photograph.
Mark
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