Making a tight turn, the Supermarine Spitfire MkIX is taken through its paces.

Ref No: T-008
Title: Spitfire MKIX
Description: Spitfire MK IX - Supermarine Spitfire was Britain's premiere fighter throughout the entire war. Pilots found it to be agile and dependable, it was a fine air-combat plane capable of great speed and superior high-altitude performance.Under the intense pressure from the Ministry of Aircraft due to the superiority of the superb German Focke-Wulf 190A , Supermarine produced the Spitfire Mk IX. The new MkIX proved vastly superior. It lasted a long time, 5665 being built, the second highest number of any Spitfire Mark. (Extracts from www.IPMSStockholm.org) This MkIX image is that of the 421 Squadron based at Kenley UK from June 1943.
Size: 910 x 650 landscape format.
Date: April 2010.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Price: R3,333.00