| Irish
Air Corps Seafires |
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| First Seafires arrived to Baldonnel
in February 1947. They were finished in Grey-green overall,
with black serial numbers on fuselage and under each wing.
Under wing stripes are 19.5'' wide, two colour boss on
upper surfaces, with orange always outside. Logo of No.1
Fighter Squadron painted under exhaust stacks. |
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| No.150 is another I.A.C. Seafire in
typical Grey-green scheme. This time propeller cone is
painted in light colour - White or Sky (?) and fin flash
is missing. It looks like all of Irish Seafires had camera
windows on both fuselage sides and No.1 Fighter Squadron
badge painted on their noses. This badge and fin flash
were latter removed on some of the aircrafts. |
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| No. 153 had its fin flash removed
latter in the career. Propeller cone appears to have much
darker colour, than usual red. It could be dark red, dark
grey or black (?). Of note is that despite the common
opinion on de-navalisation of Irish Seafires, this machine
retained rear catapult spools until the end of its service. |
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