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One of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s Spitfires, Mk Vb AB910 has been repainted this spring in the markings of No. 303 (Polish) Squadron and is about to cmplete its first airshow season in this livery. RF-D was the aircraft of Sqn Ldr Jan Zumbach, C/O of that unit between May 1942 and November 1943. Zumbach’s Spitfires (and there were several of them) were among the most colorfully marked fighters in the RAF, adorned with a prominent Donald Duck noseart. The serial number of original aircraft which carried this scheme was EN951. Jan Zumbach was credited with 13½ aerial victories.
BBMF’s reconstruction of ‘Zumbach’s Donald’ is a faithful copy of the original. A team of RAF painters worked from engineering drawings and photographs, spraying the body work to the exact WWII markings. The extensive nose art has been painstainklingly traced and brush-painted by Clive Denny from Vintage Fabrics Ltd.
AB910 will remain in the ‘Donald’ scheme for about four years.
Additional images from the BBMF site linked below show the application of the scheme in March 2007.
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