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Originally Posted by robinh
Excuse me for misunderstanding.
It sounded to me that Merlin had records of the aircraft being assigned the code SF + CY from the factory. It now appears that this could have been painted on at any time for a special unit before end of war and aircraft destroyed before capture?
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The aircraft was probably marked as SF+CY by the time it left the factory and was accepted by the Luftwaffe. As Ed says, such letters could be used as the aircraft's radio callsign throughout its life, even if it also received operational unit markings, and would also appear in documentation (its maintenance history for example).