This is a repaint for the Flight Replicas Seafire as Mk.LIII NN344 'K-O' of 899 Naval Air Squadron aboard HMS Khedive during Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of Southern France in August 1944. Most of 899's Seafires were adapted to carry a single 500lb bomb on the central hardpoint and did useful work in the ground attack role, strafing and dive-bombing.
NN344 was built by Cunliffe-Owen in March 1944. After a short but eventful service life (carrying the name 'Jane' at for least some of it) and seemingly avoiding carrier landing accidents and combat damage, it was wrecked by a forced landing in February 1945 following an engine fire. The pilot, Sub Lt. J.M Sturrock, survived the incident but NN344 was declared unrepairable.
I made a model of this aircraft back in 1973 using the 1/72 scale Airfix Spitfire IX kit. I remember 'cutting and shutting' the nose to shorten it a little, making the arrestor hook fairing from notepaper, adding a dot of sprue for the hook bill, painting the squadron codes and finally hand-writing the serial and 'Royal Navy' with a thin permanent marker. Incidentally, photos of 899's Seafires from mid-late 1944 appear to show a standard 8-inch serial without the 'Royal Navy' wording above.
Installation.
2020: Unzip the download and place the 'FJ_Seafire_III_NN344' folder into your FS2020 Community folder.
2024: Same process, obviously put it in the FS24 Community folder. On my system (MS Store version) it finds the streamed Seafire III with no problem.
Repaint for FS2020 (compatible with FS2024) by Steve Mercer based on the original textures and paint kit by Flight Replicas.
NN344 was built by Cunliffe-Owen in March 1944. After a short but eventful service life (carrying the name 'Jane' at for least some of it) and seemingly avoiding carrier landing accidents and combat damage, it was wrecked by a forced landing in February 1945 following an engine fire. The pilot, Sub Lt. J.M Sturrock, survived the incident but NN344 was declared unrepairable.
I made a model of this aircraft back in 1973 using the 1/72 scale Airfix Spitfire IX kit. I remember 'cutting and shutting' the nose to shorten it a little, making the arrestor hook fairing from notepaper, adding a dot of sprue for the hook bill, painting the squadron codes and finally hand-writing the serial and 'Royal Navy' with a thin permanent marker. Incidentally, photos of 899's Seafires from mid-late 1944 appear to show a standard 8-inch serial without the 'Royal Navy' wording above.
Installation.
2020: Unzip the download and place the 'FJ_Seafire_III_NN344' folder into your FS2020 Community folder.
2024: Same process, obviously put it in the FS24 Community folder. On my system (MS Store version) it finds the streamed Seafire III with no problem.
Repaint for FS2020 (compatible with FS2024) by Steve Mercer based on the original textures and paint kit by Flight Replicas.
