BILL PIPPIN COLLECTION
No. 7246. Supermarine 388 Seafire F.Mk.46 (LA542 c/n 19982) Royal Navy
APS No. 4569
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12/31/2007. This is the second production Seafire Mk.46, first flown from South Marston, late 1942. Only 24 of this interim naval mark 46 were built. It was fitted with a 2,375 hp Rolls-Royce Griffon Mk.87 engine with contra-rotating propellers, a cut-down fuselage with all-around vision canopy, a sting hook buried in the rudder, but no folding wings. |
Created December 31, 2007