What is a F.VcT?
In the news section of Spitfire Survivors website is this listing!
LZ844 (F.VcT)
“Sold By Australian Aviation to Martin Cobb of the UK, April 2011. Arrived Kemble, Wilts, UK, 11 July 2011”
I tried the search facility but it did not bring a reference to light so please forgive this question if has already been posed.
Can any rebuild include a trainer cockpit and get CAA approval?
Could we witness a PRXIXT taking to the skies?
By: QldSpitty - 1st January 2014 at 08:36
That was quick!! Thank you…:very_drunk:
By: MK959 - 1st January 2014 at 08:30
Still in storage along TE566.
By: QldSpitty - 1st January 2014 at 07:50
Any updates on the girl?
By: QldSpitty - 29th November 2011 at 08:23
Ah, nevermind, that’s LZ842.
Another sale on the quiet..
By: Jayce - 28th November 2011 at 13:34
Isn’t this the one that’s had its first static fuselage removed and rebuilt seperately? Is it public domain what’s happening with that?
Ah, nevermind, that’s LZ842.
By: QldSpitty - 28th November 2011 at 09:34
So the plan is to convert her back to her original MkVTrop configuration? 🙂
Yes a bitza but sometimes you have to use what you can get..
By: hunterxf382 - 28th November 2011 at 01:08
It is currently a Mk V fuselage base for serial provenance fitted with a Mk VIII bearer, long cowlings and a four blade Barracuda prop.Mark
Along with an ex-Mossie merlin too…. dataplate had that info when I saw it back in September.
It’s a bitsa alright 😉
By: Graham Boak - 27th November 2011 at 20:17
[QUOTE=merlin70;1827599]Thanks chaps makes sense although: what was the benefit to front line units of having the suffix T given that a/c were transferred between theatres? Was the difference simply the filter and chin cowl or was it more significant?
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Also a larger radiator, (possibly also oil cooler?), inclusion of desert survival kit and a change to earlier-standard radios.
I suspect the suffix was actually Trop. not just T.
By: Mark12 - 27th November 2011 at 18:10
Hope it stays as a Trop and in original RAAF colours..
Well it hasn’t been a ‘Trop’ since abandoned in New Guinea in WWII
It is currently a Mk V fuselage base for serial provenance fitted with a Mk VIII bearer, long cowlings and a four blade Barracuda prop.
Mark
By: merlin70 - 27th November 2011 at 11:48
Thanks chaps makes sense although: what was the benefit to front line units of having the suffix T given that a/c were transferred between theatres? Was the difference simply the filter and chin cowl or was it more significant?
Given the common fuselage design rearwards of frame 5 could the Vickers conversion be applied to a XIV or XIV?
By: QldSpitty - 27th November 2011 at 00:18
Hope it stays as a Trop and in original RAAF colours..
By: Mark12 - 26th November 2011 at 23:42
Indeed, F.Vc(T) for Tropical.
The official works designation of the Mk VIII & IX two seat Spitfires is ‘Trainer’.
Mark
By: Spiteful - 26th November 2011 at 22:44
Merlin,
For this aircraft, doesn’t the T stand for tropical rather than trainer? For the trainer variants the T is before the Mark number.
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November 26, 2011 at 10:19 pm