RAF Piper Cubs?

Ahemmmm. That should teach me to read the small print 😮 😉 It´s all there if I´d bothered to read the rest of the entry 😮

Of course you are right LN-ATC! FR886-889 were indeed reserialled HK936-HK939. And then VM286. It makes a total of 5 not 9.

The RAF had a total of nine L4B Cubs. RAF Serials FR886-FR889, total four. Then HK93-HK939, total four. Then there was the odd one out, VM286. A total of nine.
Info from Lend-Lease Aircraft In World War II by Pearcy, Arthur. ISBN 1 85310 443 4

According to a couple of sites I found just now (1 and 2) FR886 was later re-serialed HK936, FR887 -> HK937, etc. I guess the correct number will be 5 then, including VM286.

The RAF had a total of nine L4B Cubs. RAF Serials FR886-FR889, total four. Then HK936-HK939, total four. Then there was the odd one out, VM286. A total of nine.
Info from Lend-Lease Aircraft In World War II by Pearcy, Arthur. ISBN 1 85310 443 4

Nice picture of a cute Flitfire here

http://www.avialantic.com/paas/images/flitfire.jpg

Next closest you’ll get is the Flitfire.

A Taylor BC12 is far nicer to fly than a J3 😉

Weren’t a few dozen Cubs dressed up in mock RAF markings (without camouflage) for fund raising in the USA during WW2?

The RAF used a handful of L-4Bs for testing and evaluation only. FR886 was one of them, G-BDMS is however not the original FR886.

I think its what the plastic modellers amongst us would call a “What if”.

NICE rob – news to me too!

TT