BBMF 'Spit' gets desert markings

摘要

Sqn Ldr Andy Millikin, officer commanding the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, carried out Spitfire LFIXc MK356's post-major service air test at Biggin Hill on 6 October. Having arrived at The Spitfire Company (Biggin Hill) Ltd, Peter Monk's engineering company, after the 2016 display season painted in a No 126 Squadron D-Day scheme, it has emerged in a striking desert livery. The brown (dark earth) and sand (middle stone) top surfaces and azure blue undersides, with the codes QJ-3, represent No 92 Squadron's Spitfire IX EN 152 as flown by the then Fit Lt Neville Duke in Tunisia during April-May 1943.