This folder contains a repaint for the Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX by Real Air.
It shows Spitfire IX 2011 #26 was one of the 60 Spitfires that Israel bought in Czechoslowakia for $23.000 in 1948. They were ferried to Israel via Yugoslavia, where they were refuelled before embarking on a 2250 km trip over the Mediterranean to reach Israel. Operation Velvetta was the codename of these secret ferry flights.
On arrival in Israel, the Ocean Grey RAF paint was over-painted in brown, and the aircraft received the tail markings of the 101st squadron of the IDAF.
The marking below the cockpit was a Czech marking, but the Israelis added an aircraft in the claws of the eagle.
Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on the paint kit by RealAir.
It shows Spitfire IX 2011 #26 was one of the 60 Spitfires that Israel bought in Czechoslowakia for $23.000 in 1948. They were ferried to Israel via Yugoslavia, where they were refuelled before embarking on a 2250 km trip over the Mediterranean to reach Israel. Operation Velvetta was the codename of these secret ferry flights.
On arrival in Israel, the Ocean Grey RAF paint was over-painted in brown, and the aircraft received the tail markings of the 101st squadron of the IDAF.
The marking below the cockpit was a Czech marking, but the Israelis added an aircraft in the claws of the eagle.
Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on the paint kit by RealAir.
