Shortround6
Major General
Still post-war but no need to go to the MK 8. the MK IV would have done just fine. First flew 15th Aug 1945. Of course there were still some problems and it took (such was the pace of post-war development) until 1947-48 to sort some of them out. But clipped wing MK IVs were flying earlier than that. The MK IV makes a decent RAF '46 what if