The ex-South Vietnamese F-5, and a Cessna A-37, are on display at the Polish Aviation Museum in Cracow.
http://www.muzeumlotnictwa.pl/indexen.php?mod=show_galery&idg=5

I am trying to discover the wherabouts of Johnny Kent’s logbooks. Does anyone know? I knew Johnny well from about 1970 and know he lent his logbooks to an author called Barry Winchester. I dont know if he got them back before he died. Anyone know where they are now, or does anyone know if he led his Wing on 9 August 1941? Andy Saunders

They are at the RAF Musem Hendon, both in flesh and on microfilm (at least that’s where they were a month ago when I last looked at them). I have copies of the 1941 pages, so can check the 9 August for you when I get back home.

As I have understand it – the Russian Maritime AF recived seven PR.IVs and BP929 was one of them. RAF serials of the other six..?

More than seven. I post this from my office, so can’t quote the numbers, but there once was an article in “Air Enthusiast” on Soviet PR Spitfires, entitled “Unarmed, Unafraid, and Unaccompanied”, which listed them all in detail.
Air Britain’s “Spitfire International” (by Helmut Terbeck, Harry van der Meer, and Ray Sturtivant) also gives the answer to your question.

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Just to keep Mark12 happy of course

I bet Mark is a happy man already!

Look closely at the roundel under the wing of the biplane, and you can see that the outer ring appears darkest.

Are you sure it’s a roundel? To me the aeroplane in the first photo seems to have the Czech civil register “OK” on the fuselage and on the bottom of the wing.

Well if like us you have one handy you could always consult your copy of the “Camouflage and Identification Scheme” Drawing No. 35600 Sheet 21 issue G or any one of the other official layout specification drawings that are in circulation, some specific to certain mark of aircraft. However, all service aircraft have deviations in finish from the moment they are received into service, so a photograph is always the best source for accuracy to a specific machine. Mind you some people can’t be bothered, others like myself, Mark V and Mark 12 can and do try hard for accuracy where it is achievable sometimes necessarily within the constarints of the owners requirements.

Are you annoyed?
Why?
I don’t know about your sources, but it’s enough to look carefully at photos to see that from the very beginning Spitfires built by Supermarines had their fuselage roundels applied in different position than those built by CBAF. And most Spitfires spent their entire service life with those roundels in the same position as applied at the factory.
And, yes, some people can’t be bothered, others like myself, Mark V and Mark 12 can and do try hard for accuracy, where it is achievable, sometimes necessarily within the constraints of the owners’ requirements.