Was Reg Urschler and ‘Gunfighter’ there?

They were.

Rich – I think I did get the photo – thank you. Unfortunately I deleted it as the message was from a name I did not recognise and had no title but had an attachment! If it was titled ‘Mystery Spitfire’ I would have opened it but never mind 😮

Not EP120, as it has full wingtips (apart from the engine issue) and type A roundels. So yes, only possibilities are BM597 and P7350. No way its AR213 as a) it has not flown yet and b) the underwing roundels are not yet painted on!

However it does seem to have a 3-blade prop – I think P7350 is running one at the mo? My money is on 597 though.

Fluffy or anyone BBMF can you confirm please?

The drawing is dated 06/41 but there must be a revision as those roundels were not introduced until 05/42 !

What does this Prontaprint place charge?

Prontaprint is a high street franchised photocopy/print shop. Most branches are unlikely to have the scanning capability to take large format material such as old aircraft drawaing prints. The one place I know can do this work is de Havilland Support at Duxford. As an alternative you could simply go to a drawing office plan printing company – there are one or two in most towns, and get them to photocopy the drawing full size (the can usually copy up to A0 size). The original print can then be safely archived and the modern copy used for perusing.

PR.XI?

No – it was in the hangar at the time – he would have surely seen the invasion stripes if it had been PL965.

All Spitfires have between two and four radiators under the wings. 😉

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6.45pm, evening sun (?), over water. Unless he/she was performing for you personally it is unlikely that the code letters would be discernable without artificial assistance or a telephoto lens.

I think he said he was using binoculars, still cannot work this one out though (unless it was a Harvard)!

Very nice work! 🙂