Fluffy, the only photo I know of and which I am sure you will have is in Brian Kingcome’s book, ‘A Willingness to Die,’ captioned (wrongly I think) Manston Feb 1941 – the spinners are black with no sky band around the rear fuselage. The same photo, sourced from Allan Wright appears in a smaller form in ‘Best of the Few 92 Squadron 1939-40,’ where it is (probably correctly) captioned ‘A-Flight about to leave for Bibury.’ As they were leaving from Pembrey, presumably it is Pembrey. QJ-K looks to have A scheme camouflage with a standard 35 inch type A1 roundel, with standard 92 Squadron size and placing of the Squadron letters on the port side with the top left quadrant of the Q on the cockpit side door. The serial number K9998 is fairly clearly visible. Kingcome’s QJ-F is visible in the background. Also in A Flight at the time of the transit were Sammy Saunders, Tony Bartley, Gus Edwards, Jimmy Paterson, Wimpy Wade, Ronnie Fokes and Michael Barraclough – presumably one of them flew QJ-K that day.
As I’m sure you are also well aware, on the starboard side 92 Squadron painted the Squadron code forward of the roundel with the aircraft identification letter behind. It was also standard practice for the Squadron to paint the aircraft identification letter on the underside of the engine cowling just behind the spinner.
If you do need a copy of the photo, let me know and I can scan and email it to you.
One plea I would make – if BBMF does plan to represent this vintage Spitfire Mk 1, the second last of the initial order of 310, it would be very sad to see P7350 still bearing a pointed spinner and a stack of 6 exhausts instead of the standard Mk 1 configuration, or even the Rotol short spinner for the standard Mk II!
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