Spitfire T9 PV202 now sports an Irish Air Corps paint scheme

[PaulR]

It looks great, the accompanying picture was taken by FlyPast mag's Aviation Forum poster DamienB.



Loads more photos here.

[historical-avi-irl.i8.com]

I agree, it does look great, anybody think we might get a fouga flying again looking like that!
"Good Work" To The Painter!

[lazza]

you gotta be takin the pi$$,
thats the worst spitfire paint scheme I've ever seen, unless you're a complet patriot!

wouldn't turn my nose up at it, but would have to make a trip to the paint shop

[OnTheNumbers]

Nice that it's in an Irish scheme but whoaaaa!! I agree with lazza defintely not a good colour scheme!

[shrtfld]

Got to agree it does look nice. I have no issues with the shade of green it is worth comparing it with originals of the era. To this end I refer the readers to the publication "The Irish Air Corps Celebrates 100 years of flight". On page 37 there is what is described as a rare colour portrait of Spitfir # 163. The colours are all over green, red spinner etc. The difference in colour is the photo of 163 taken in March 1968 has a duller / matt green colour whereas 161 is a glosss finish.

However for the purists the roundel on 161 in this thread is two tone whereas all photos I can find of aircraft which were put into the Air Corps in that era had a three colour roundel (white added) including the aforementioned 163.

The Air Corps book is a great publication for anyone has not seen it.

Rgds