Wait a minute!
do you have for it any explication?I think it was IXc in 1943, but is possible that in 44 or 45 it had wing type C
Mikone,
It might come as a suprise, but there was actually no ‘c’ type wing fitted to the MKIX!
If you take a look in the archives, you’ll find a very long and interesting thread on the subject (I’m pretty sure you were in on it too Daz,but it was along time ago!), and it was concluded that the ‘c’ wing on the MKIX didn’t exist, and indeed, it was clear that there was no official ‘b’ or ‘c’ wing designation for MKIX’s in any of the official Air Publications!
However, when the new wing with 2x20mm cannon & 2×0.5 inch machine guns (the 4x.303’s being deleted) was fitted to later production MKIX’s, the ‘e’ prefix was added to indicate those aircraft fitted with that wing, as can be seen in the Air Ministry Pilots notes for example.
It seems that over the years, historians and the like have incorrectly carried over the ‘c’ suffix (and also the ‘b’) to the earlier MKIX’s that where fitted with the 2x20mm cannons & 4x.303 machine gund from the ‘c’ wing MKV, even though no such designation officially existed!
Being an aircraft in the EN range, it would have originally had the earlier wing, as the ‘e’ wing wasn’t introduced until 1944, although I suppose if for any reason the original wings were replaced later on, it could have ended up with ‘e’ wings from a later aircraft!
Maybe are resident Spitfire experts can chime in and confirm.
Cheers
Paul
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