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Update 2022-02-01: Colors updated and clipped wing livery added. Tested with DCS 2.7.10

TO DO: Add version in Dark Earth/Mid Stone/Azure Blue colours (based on MA454).

This is a fictional skin and should present a British Spitfire, that made an Emergency landing in Switzerland and was interned. For ferry flight, the planes received Swiss markings.

BORT numbers enabled for Multiplayer.

Download: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3320434/

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Interesting fact: The only Spitfire that landed (if you'd like to call it a landing) in Switzerland was a Spitfire IX.

This particular Spitfire (construction number MK366) was flown by Henri-Jean Louis Koechlin of the French Air Force and crash on 20.4.1945 near Schaffhausen because of engine failure. No one was hurt.

 

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More to this story (in German) here:

http://warbird.ch/wb-events/eine-tanne-gestreift/

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In the book Spitfire Aces of North Africa and Italy (Osprey Pub.), in the note of the colour plates, I found this:

Spitfire IX MA454/UM-V of Fit Lt G T Baynham, No 152 Sqn, Lentini East, Sicily, 27 August 1943

Transferred in from No 111 Sqn, this aircraft was the usual mount of Fig Off R J Bell. Like other Spitfire IXs flown by No 152 Sqn in the summer of 1943, it had prominent black unit codes - probably to distinguish them from the Mk Vs also in use by the unit.

Among several aces in the squadron at this time was Fit Lt Geoffrey Baynham, who had achieved this distinction on 25 July 1943. On the morning of 27 August he flew MA454 on a low-level convoy escort off the Sicilian coast. This was possibly the only operational mission he logged in the aircraft.

A month later, on 25 September, fellow ace and No 322 Wing Leader Lt Col Laurie Wilmot flew the Spitfire on a freelance anti-Ju 52/3m patrol.

MA454 was later transferred to No 1 Sqn SAAF, and on 20 February 1945 it force-landed in neutral Switzerland after being hit by flak over Udine, in northern Italy.

 

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Maybe, under SAAF, it still retained the Dark Earth/Mid Stone/Azure Blue colours.

BTW, nice work for a fictional :smilewink:

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