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Can you tell me which Polish fighter squadron this aircraft was assigned to
and who the pilot was? TIA

Onardo 11/04/2015 19:35, 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/transl...38&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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Moving Things In Still Pictures

Thanks for the quick reply & the references!