Australian War Memorial Spitfire

[planecrazy]

So managed to visit the War Memorial recently, a must do, so well done and if you are keen allow at least 3 hours.
Their Spitfire Mk II is very early model in original paint and hard to photograph, my confusion is with the spinner,
I wonder if this is off a later model? (Dave please move this if you think it should be elsewhere)







From Wikipedia.
Spitfire F Mk.IIa P7973. This Spitfire was flown by several Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
squadrons in 1941. Assigned to No. 452 Sqn (RAAF) (RAF Kenley and RAF Hornchurch) Flown by Australian pilot "Bluey"
Truscott on "Circus 68", a bomber escort mission into France on 9 August 1941. This was the mission in which famous
legless RAF pilot Douglas Bader was shot down and became a P.O.W. Aircraft has not been repainted since WW2 however
bears the markings R-H of the Central Gunnery School.|(Markings: R-H) flying 24 operations. In July 1945 it was shipped to
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia for display. One of the few Spitfires still in its original paint, it has been displayed in the
Australian War Memorial in Canberra since 1950; it has not been repainted since the Second World War.

[baz62]

Jul 18, 2013 10:53:52 GMT 12 planecrazy said:

Their Spitfire Mk II is very early model in original paint and hard to photograph, my confusion is with the spinner,
I wonder if this is off a later model?

The spinner looks the same as installed on the MK V. May have been used on MK IIa as there were at least two types of prop used. If this aircraft stayed in service say at an OTU it may have received a later prop and spinner. Some MK V Spits even ended up with individual exhaust stacks like the MK IX for example.

[Luther Moore]

I was there a couple of months ago, did you get in the Lancaster ride?