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Re: Photo Spad
Hi Clint
Since the seller claims basically everything in sight as a SPAD XIII it is good to watch out what he says and be cautious.
However Romania did operate the SPAD XIII. After they had bought 39 S.VII in 1919 they followed that up by buying 19 S.XIII the following year.
The one seen here looks like it still carries French colours on the fin, but in all fairness could be just after delivery and before any national colours had been applied. From the photos I have seen at least the fuselage did not carry any national markings at all and the camo remained as it was when delivered. The fin also seems to have remained in French colours, at least for a while, but I have far too few photos (all on top undated) to actually make any commitment about that.
All this was gathered from the Dan Antoniu and his book 'Illustrated history of Romanian Aeronautics'
If anyone should make a useful comment, I suppose Dénes is the one that comes to mind.
Cheers
Stig
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