Looks to be a BE2.

Wiki entry

The Bs and Cs look so much prettier with an Malcolm hood.

Congratulations and Well Done to Andy, Rod, Darryl, Alastair and the rest of the team. Hope it’s a great event.

I wonder if it’s a Westland built machine? I’ve noted the stiffeners on several wartime photos of AR coded machines and ‘501 (also a C wing) certainly had them prior to her rebuild.

Interesting. I wonder what the plans for it are.

Thanks for infos. Many of Mk.1X and X1V kits have large bumps over wheelwell and wartime markings, what is mistake.

To add a little to what Tony said, as there is some confusion in modelling circles about this. A and B wing Spitfires always had a very subtle kidney shaped bump over the wheel wells. This ‘kidney blister’ appears to have been deleted from the C and E wing, no wartime pictures show it. The first set of wartime u/c mods necessitated the stiffener cut and ‘kidney blister’ wings were beefed up by two external stiffeners (you can see these on R6915). This is sometimes confused with the post war oleo mod Tony mentioned that introduced the teardrop wheel well blister.

As Tony says, no wartime C or E Wing aicraft should have a wheel well blister of any kind.

I think we need to be careful of “three and fourpence syndrome” It’s very easy for someone to say ‘died in the incident’, (Which I think we can all agree was Copping’s tragic fate.) and then have others interpret it as ‘died in the crash’.

I still recall an incident where we informed the nearby press wagons of the safety distance around a Tonka crash site due to the FLIR… only for them to report nationally that the a/c had scattered radioactive flares all over the area…. :rolleyes: