Hi all,
Wondering if anybody can help.
Regarding 65 Sq codes around January 1943, would anybody have an idea as to what colour they might have been?
Serial numbers and letters would have been Black I know but size wise………Answers on the back of a stamp please.
Ta.
Drem.
By: Drem - 30th January 2013 at 21:53
Thank you all once again.
All the info I now need.
Cheers.:p
By: Edgar Brooks - 30th January 2013 at 20:50
Photos, in 1941 (IIa,) and 1945 (XVI,) in “Fighter Squadrons of the RAF,” show 24″ codes, so it should be a fair bet they continued through the war.
By: Drem - 30th January 2013 at 19:33
Hello all,
No pictures of the aircraft exist to my knowledge so it will be a very much hit and miss project.
Just thought though that I suppose any picture found of a 65 Sq Spit around 1943 should be of help.
Once again, my thanks to all for your help.
Drem.
By: Edgar Brooks - 30th January 2013 at 18:27
Standard fighter dimensions were 24″ high, 12″ wide, 3″ apart, and brushstrokes 3″ wide; however, due to the lack of space between the bottom of the opened canopy and the top of the wingroot fillet, Spitfire Squadrons had a special dispensation to use letters 20″ high. Some Squadrons did, some didn’t, so photographs are really preferable, to be absolutely certain.
By: TonyT - 30th January 2013 at 16:40
We talking Spits, have this, any help? Top one is dated 41
http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/SpitfiretypeD.jpg
http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/SpitfireDrawingsmall.jpg
By: Drem - 30th January 2013 at 16:12
Oops, forgot.
Any idea if the Sq codes would have been 24″ or 30″.
By: Drem - 29th January 2013 at 22:47
Thank you,
Greatly appreciated.
Drem.
By: Cranswick - 29th January 2013 at 22:43
Sky codes, 8″ high serials.
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