Onardo 11/04/2015 19:35, JimNot@home.com wrote:
> Can you tell me which Polish fighter squadron this aircraft was assigned to
> and who the pilot was? TIA
>
If you can get hold of a copy of this book:
http://stratusbooks.com.pl/str/books.php?book_id=168
...it contains eleven pictures of MK520, plus this little gem:
"The final pages are devoted to the story of Mk 520 which has been
dubbed “the first private Spitfire” and follows its history, its users
and its various colour schemes and the markings it carried from early
1944 through to its eventual “sale” for several hundred cigarettes to a
US Colonel in 1946."
145 and 302 Squadrons RAF had links to this aircraft and had Polish links.
Also check this out:
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&u=http://www.altair.com.pl/magazines/article%3Farticle_id%3D3038&prev=search
...and note, from that article:
"When you have just come to terms with the idea that no Polish Wing
Commander never had Goło-metal Spitfire IX, I was shocked. Within one
month at the beginning of 2002 I got three different sources Spitfire IX
photos without camouflage, with checkered Polish air to the engine cover
and the RAF Wing Commander; neither pennant under the cab! The story of
Tom Neil quickly regained credibility. There was nothing like - a
trifle! - Identify the Dutch pilot who left the plane in Rennes and
mysterious Polish first private owner of the Spitfire in history. And as
a known spitfireomaniak course I also wanted to identify the
registration number of the aircraft."
Ri©ardo
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