Soviet Spitfire

[Pilot]

I have seen one very poor image of Soviet Spitfire. It look like to have two topside colors in very wide patches, no national insignia on fuselage and vertical and number 01 on fuselage in very pale color. Did any of you have any info about this plane or even better larger image?

Cheers

[Ex Shack]

Hi
Take a look at http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/f/52/1/0 which gives some painted profiles of Spitfires in Soviet colours, 8 of them.
Regards
Dick

[Pilot]

Good link. It could be like this one but this profile does not capture real plane or the plane which I mean.

[Graham Boak]

Photographs I have seen show Soviet Spitfires to have retained the RAF camouflage of Dark Green and Ocean Grey uppersurfaces, in the standard pattern. RAF roundels were overpainted using Soviet colours, with red stars underwing and on the tail and/or fuselage. The Sky fuselage band and spinner were also retained, but this could easily have differed between individuals.

The PR Spitfires retained their PRU Blue overall scheme.

I vaguely recall one coded 01 - was this the Mk.Vb used for catapult trials postwar?

[PeterA]

A PR IV(or modified Mk V) of the 118 ORAP Northern Fleet carried the 01 code together with Red Stars on the fuselage, fin/rudder and the engine side cowlings. All fairly feint.

There are a couple of fairly well known shots published of this.

PeterA

[Pilot]

Thank you all

[Revi16]

Here you go,

http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/englis...spit/index.htm

Regards,
Mike