By: Mike J - 25th February 2014 at 22:21
Hint to the RAF Museum hierarchy – it would look rather spiffing in a postwar silver scheme.
By: Roobarb - 25th February 2014 at 22:13
Omg!! Those codes look white!!
Not to mention the post 1947 Bright Red and Bright Blue roundel colours (that’s Post Office/Cherry Red and Roundel Blue in modern BS381c speak)…
By: David Burke - 25th February 2014 at 21:20
Hope none of you have an AX-E to grind!
By: Oxcart - 25th February 2014 at 20:46
Omg!! Those codes look white!!
By: DazDaMan - 25th February 2014 at 18:38
A-XT (which, of course, is 603 Sqn’s codes).
By: oldgit158 - 25th February 2014 at 17:41
Hi
Bruce I think your 150% right on that one.
Does the RAFM only have the paint stencils for AX these days? I ask this as I recall the MkXVI RW393 being marked up as AX-T when it was at Cosford during the 1990’s.
Regards
Jason
By: Robbo - 25th February 2014 at 17:18
It’s not a hoax, Bruce.
By: Bruce - 25th February 2014 at 16:54
Port side codes cannot be right!
By: merlin70 - 25th February 2014 at 16:16
I know where I will be this Sunday :eagerness:
By: DCW - 25th February 2014 at 16:13
MT847 is now in position at Hendon as part of the ‘Britain From Above’ display. Not perfect for photos, but better than some in the museum.
By: D1566 - 9th February 2014 at 22:59
Presumably it went indoors at Cosford some time in the early 1970s? I can remember seeing it there in 1976.
By: WZ862 - 9th February 2014 at 22:48
I just love this forum because it adds subsequent very illuminatory posts like these to what might be the initial anodyne. Thank you Duxman. Made my day.
WZ862
By: Duxman - 9th February 2014 at 19:44
With pictures of a certain silver Spitfire at Duxford recently on this Forum its worth recording that MT847 once wore a silver scheme. Some pictures below from slides in my collection ( first 2 pictures -photographers unknown )
Seen on display at the Medical Training Establishment at Freckleton in April 1963 coded MT-E !
MT847 Freckleton 11.4.63 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
It subsequently moved to Middleton St George before arriving at Cosford where it was seen mounted in the parade ground below in 1967.
MT847 Cosford Oct 67 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
.. by July 86 it was in the museum but in a camouflaged scheme without codes.
MT847 Cosford July 84 by AJCDuxman, on Flickr
Duxman
By: GliderSpit - 9th February 2014 at 17:30
Been there in 2006
By: jeepman - 9th February 2014 at 16:11
For ease of reference:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-26108617
Always felt the RAFM should reclaim it’s only Mk XIV and display it in SEAC colours. Wonder whether it will be eventually replaced by the PR19 currently in the Middle East (shopping mall in Kuwait? Bahrain?) to commemorate the last operational use of the Spitfire by the THUM flight at Woodvale
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