I wonder what serial number you'll be giving this Mike.
Corgi etc have May's Camel as D3326 but the Camel File from Air Britain (The Bible as far as I'm concerned) has it as D3328.
I wonder what's in the Eduard kit.
Sandy
Hi Sandy,
This aircraft was indeed Serial No.D3228.
Below is what 'Eduard' say about this aircraft.
Camel D3328 was built at the Clayton Shuttleworth factory and served with No. 9(N) Sqn RNAS from March 12, 1918.
The unit was redesignated No. 209 Sqn RAF from April 1, 1918.
On April 21,1918, "Wop" May was flying this Camel during the epic dogfight, which ended with the death of Manfred von Richthofen.
May was the pilot the Red Baron attacked before he himself was hit by fire from Capt. Brown, ground machine gunners, or both.
There is no photo of the whole aircraft.
One close-up photo shows May in the cockpit of the aircraft with the LUCY inscription.
The photo was taken in the second half of April, it is therefore possible that D3328 was so named.
In another photograph, the first in the line of the No. 209 Sqn Camels is an aircraft with a combination of white fuselage stripes and a fuselage cockade.
Some Camels of the Squadron only had stripes on the fuselage, we opted for a more attractive version for the D3328.
The serial numbers of the aircraft, which had them painted on the fin, disappeared under the red color paint, which along with the red nose was the squadron's distinctive coloring.
Mike
