Warbirds in civilian colour schemes

For those wanting to know more about T6’s used as counter insurgency aircraft by the French, there’s a good page on it here

http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v3/v3n1/frcoin.html

The Beech Restorations AT-6 ‘Texan Tomcat’ served with the French Air Force as a COIN aircraft, and the Italeri 1/48 kit depicts ‘Texan Tomcat’ as she was in French service

Here’s my (rented) ex-warbird. Genuine Korean War-era MASH-type H-13E converted to later 47G status in its post military career.
Looks rather smart in its civil scheme.

How far do you want to go back?

Mark

This is as far as I can go.

Here’s a link to a clip of Mustang VH-BOY (ex-RAAF A68-39) in its civilian colour scheme. This aircraft is a CAC built CA-17 which is now a USA registered P-51 N551D. This Super8 film clip is from the start of the New South Wales Air Race of 1974 and shows the aircraft departing Bankstown airport.

Film clip is with permission of the copyright owner, a friend of mine who looked after his old film footage and recently had it converted to video.

http://s116.photobucket.com/albums/o1/eshe02/Aircraft/?action=view&current=VHBOYBankstown1974.flv

GFR

White Waltham, I think.

Mark

Three for the price of two, both from the late Lloyd Hamilton.

Mark

Ahhh, Lloyd Hamilton’s N500M. Love those colors. Too bad this a/c is now sitting idle in Greece.

T J

HP Halton

Some of the Mau Mau Harvards actually carried kill markings , go on post a picture of them I dare you .

Three for the price of two, both from the late Lloyd Hamilton.

Mark

Here is a shot I must have had in my collection for all of fifty years, acquired at the general exchange of info and photos at Air-Britain Harrow branch meet.

Mark

Fantastic, i presume this is the one now at Hendon? Whats the tailplane in thr foreground?

I for one don’t care, thanks for posting a great pic! looks like a DVII U/C in the foreground?

Possibly from this, which was adjacent.

Mark

For some this one will not get ‘Warbird’ status. 😉

Nash collection at LHR in, from memory, 1961.

Mark

I for one dont care, thanks for posting a great pic! looks like a DVII U/C in the foreground?

For some this one will not get ‘Warbird’ status. 😉

Nash collection at LHR in, from memory, 1961.

Mark

I have three more shots of G-FIRE taken at Kidlington in 1986. We were fortunate to see it start up, and what struck me was the immediate response, no put-put or coughing, straight in with quite high revs…

enjoy
Alan
www.english-for-flyaways.de

We are almost forgetting one aircraft that arrived in the uk in a civel colour sceme. Think most people called it the rasta cat. The only thing missing was smoke out of the blister from a joint.

Although I’d only seen is designated as a T-6 I think its use against U-Boats and the Mau Mau might just enable it to be called a warbird :rolleyes:

And the Royal Air Force used Harvards (quite effectively) against the Mau Mau hooligans in Kenya in the mid 1950s.

Not to mention the numerous wars in South/ Central America and Africa where the Texan/ Harvard/ SNJ have been used for CoIn operations. Definately a warbird if you ask me.

T J

French used Havards in Algeria as well.