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the Mark XI photo spit at Gardermoen Norway
 

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the Spitfire XVI from Biltema sweden
 

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a few more
 

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Here are some shots from yesterday with the progress on the CAF SoCal Wing's MkXIV. The Griffon is almost completed (off-site complete rebuild) and will hang on her again soon.
 

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I knew I should've gone yesterday, I could've posed for you. :lol: I have a before image of the cockpit I've been meaning to post. And one of it back in England I found on Google.
 

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Early MkI cockpit. Rudder pedals are single step type with "Supermarine" engraved in them.
 
Hey One_Hellcat, I've got some pics of the same Spitfire you show in your above photo. Thought I'd go ahead and post all six. They are scanned from slides I took probably at the Chino Air Show back in 1989 or 1990. According to my research, this is a Mk XVIII. I don't recognize the nation's insignias, though. Israel, maybe?

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Best,

Michael
 
Beautiful. The insignia's are for the Royal Indian Air Force. I couldn't give you specifics on what this particular plane did there. Sometime after India became independent, this airframe was used as an instructional air frame for mechanics in the Indian Air Force.

It's actually a Mk XIV. I work on this very plane at the CAF in Camarillo. I joined as a cadet sometime after its engine blew so I've never had the chance of seeing her fly, but I've worked almost every Saturday for the past few years, mostly to help restore the cockpit and to squeeze into tight places.

The plane looks a little different now.
 
Some beaut shots there chaps!
The roundels on the MkXIV are actually SEAC (RAF) roundels, not Royal Indian Air Force, and the aircraft is in the scheme used in Burma, towards the end of WW2.
Waynos, the internal armoured windscreen was fitted to aircraft from roughly the mid-production of the MkV. There are still a number of Spits around with the earlier external screen, though only,AFAIK, about four flying. During the making of the BoB movie, in 1968, those aircraft used that had the external screen, were modified to internal, to look more like the majority of aircraft gathered for the movie, i.e. MksIX and XVI predominantly.
 
A few from my collection....the first is prototype K5054 photographed by my Grandad at Hendon in 1936 in the New Types Park (by the way she first flew today 5th March 1936). The next three are a homage to MkIX ML417 which was converted to a trainer after the war then in 1982 had been converted to a single seat again by Personal Plane Services at Booker. The shot was taken by me at PPS in 1982. The next shot takes us to 1988 when 417 was painted up in an early scheme for the excellent series Piece of Cake. The final shot taken in 1997 shows her in her last colours. The aircraft was owned by Stephen Grey of the Fighter Collection from the late 70s thru to her export to the Friedkin Collection.
 

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