609 Sqn codes

[JackG]

So I've applied Xtradecal's 30" codes, but wonder if the brush strokes of the individual letters need to be "beefed up" or do they look fine as is - what are some opinions? Aircraft is a Mk I Spitfire Bob time frame.

regards,

Jack

[Troy Smith]

So I've applied Xtradecal's 30" codes, but wonder if the brush strokes of the individual letters need to be "beefed up" or do they look fine as is - what are some opinions? Aircraft is a Mk I Spitfire Bob time frame.

Hi Jack

As i said in the 303 sq question, BoB codes vary quite a lot, both in 'font' and thickness, so best to work from a photo.

EDIT - http://elearning-phys.uni-sofia.bg/~a_tzon...e%20109%20E.htm

a few BoB pics here, note almost complete lack of uniformity of code letter size and style!

Do you have a photo of the plane in questions? That is the decider on this one I'm afraid.

HTH

T

PS - I really should find better things to do....

if this IS the same plane note that it's quite an old Spit, having smaller 40" upperwing roundels as initially applied and considerable wear to the wing root. As well as the gas warning triangle position.

Other will be able to fill in more info ....oh, hang on,

http://www.spitfires.ukf.net/p003.htm

N3280 Ia 492 EA MIII FF 9-1-40 24MU 16-1-40 234S 25-4-40 609S 5-9-40 C2 ops 25-9-40 AST 41S 20-10-40 611S 24-10-40 485S 15-3-41 57OTU 29-4-41 52OTU 16-5-42 AAEE 24-3-43

492 spit built, possibly the same plane.. but, I'm not the site Spitfire expert... just having a google out of curiosity

a few other 609 pics here

http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/dorset/warmpics.html

ironically typed while Spitfire Ace is on the Military channel....

Edited December 30, 2011 by Troy Smith

[Dr Lurve]

So I've applied Xtradecal's 30" codes, but wonder if the brush strokes of the individual letters need to be "beefed up" or do they look fine as is - what are some opinions? Aircraft is a Mk I Spitfire Bob time frame.

regards,

Jack

Nice Spit, look forward to seeing this one finished. What brand of paint did you use?

Regards

Rob

[JackG]

Troy - the Warmwell set of photos are the ones I've mostly been looking at. Particularly this one:

To me it appears the lettering is as wide as each individual colour on the fuselage roundel, (or is the perspective of the photo misleading in this?)

I've found no photos of N3280 and have arrived at the "E" code from extrapolating a few entries of the squadron's logbooks.

Rob - for longest time I have been using Tamiya's acrylic paints, but lately been running out so have been trying some other brands. The dark earth is from Life Color Paints while the dark green is Model Master. The underside is my own mixture mostly Tamiya white and yellow, but a few drops of Prussian and Sky blue from Andrea.

The build log is here

regards,

Jack

Edited December 30, 2011 by JackG

[Hutch]

'I've found no photos of N3280 and have arrived at the "E" code from extrapolating a few entries of the squadron's logbooks.'

Jack

I recently posted a request for a code for a particular 609 sqn aircraft and was wondering, as you seem to have access to the squadron's logbook, if you could try and find it out for me. I'm looking for the code of N3231 as flown by P/O M E Staples from RAF Warmwell on the 7 Oct 1940. He was shot down (but bailed out successfully) and his Spitfire crashed near the village in Dorset where I grew up (in the 1960/70/80s).

Kind regards

Hutch

[JackG]

Hutch - yes, I saw your original request a while back but did not respond as I could not find a definite code. I don't have access to the squadron's logbooks, but I found a few excerpts from them by doing online searches.

There is FilePhotoService in the UK that can provide you with digital copies of materials from the National Archives, but there is a fee of course. There are no guarantees, as it has been pointed out to me most time logbook entries usually just have serial codes named but not the squadron codes.

Best I can do for you is provide my working list of 609 codes. Compare them to the aircraft flying that day (or that week?) in question and eliminate the individual codes that N3231 could not be. Another approach is to find the aircraft serial that was damaged/destroyed a day or two before N331 arrived at 609, or conversely the aircraft that replaced Staples destroyed craft. It is possible they shared the same individual code.

regards,

Jack

Supermarine Spitfire MkI

K9815 609S 13-7-40 Pilot blinded by glycol fumes crash-landed Piddlehinton Dorset 26-7-40 SOC 1-8-40 FH286.15

K9825 609S 13-7-40 FACA 14-7-40

K9841 PR-R 609S 18-7-40 damaged ops 12-8-40 AST 12-8-40 609S 18-8-40 616S 25-8-40

K9997 609S 4-6-40 damaged enemy action 12-8-40 7OTU 5-10-40

L1007 609S 18-4-40 as proto MkIB 72S Drem shot down Heinkel over Scotland 1-40 ? Landed on top of L1085 on landing Drem 15-5-40 SOC CE 28-5-40

L1008 PR-K 609S 8-6-40 RAE 6-40 pilot F/Lt J Dundas force-landed Glastonbury Sgt Hughes-Rees safe 25-9-40 C2

L1058

L1060

L1063

L1064

L1065 PR-E and T 609S 6-9-39 7OTU 5-11-40 write-off sept.3 burst tyre on landing Ogilvie

L1068 609S 6-9-39 FA 25-5-40

L1069 609S 3-9-39 FTR after combat over Portland F/Lt Barran died 11-7-40

L1071 609S 6-9-39 MMO 29-3-40

L1081 609S 19-8-39 Missing while escorting Defiants over Dunkerque 31-5-40

L1082 PR-A 609S 19-8-39 damaged by L1060 Drem 21-11-39 609S shot down by Bf110 nr Ryde IoW P/O Mamedoff safe 24-8-40 58OTU

L1083 609S 29-8-39 54S 8-6-40

L1084 609S 29-8-39 74S 9-5-40

L1086 609S 29-8-39 crashed in bad visibility CE 30-5-40 SOC 7-6-40

L1087 609S 27-8-39 Ditched in Channel during escort for Defiants to Dunkerque 31-5-40

L1088 609S 29-8-39 MMO 18-9-39 610S damaged by L1074 16-10-3

L1095 609S 6-9-39 P/O Mitchell missing into sea 11-7-40

L1096 609S 7-9-39 AST 7-11-40 58OTU

N3023 609S 8-9-39 shot down Weymouth Bay by Bf109 P/O Buchanan killed 27-7-40 FH219.05

N3024 PR-H 609S 11-9-39 Missing off Sussex coast raid on Middle Wallop 14-8-40 F/O McD Goodwin missing

N3025 609S 11-9-39 undershot landing Drem 19-3-40 SOC CE 13-5-40

N3113 609S 10-8-40 C2 ops 30-9-40

N3202 609S 16-4-40 FTR ops 31-5-40

N3203 609S 25-4-40 damaged ops CB 17-7-40

N3222 609S 25-4-40 Missing after attack on He111s nr Dunkerque 1-6-40

N3223 PR-M 609S 25-4-40 u/c jam F/O Nowierski abandoned aircraft crashed nr Middle Wallop 5-10-40

N3231 609S 28-9-40 shot down by Bf109 nr Sutton Waldron P/O Staples abandoned aircraft injured 7-10-40

N3238 609S 28-9-40 shot down by Bf109 over Yeovil Sgt Feary abandoned aircraft killed 7-10-40

N3270 609S 11-12-40 66S 'LZ-F' 24-2-41

>N3280 234S 25-4-40 609S 5-9-40 C2 ops 25-9-40 AST 41S 20-10-40

N3288 PR-S 609S 18-9-40 C2 ops 26-9-40

P9322 PR-L online profile art/ 609S 8-6-40 damaged by Bf110 25-8-40 AST 61OTU 16-8-41

P9427 609S 25-4-40 C2 ops 25-5-40 MMO 74S 21-8-40

P9467 609S 4-6-40 C2 ops 12-7-40 1CRU 603S

P9503 609S 26-9-40 Damaged by return fire from bomber P/O Baillon aircraft abandoned nr Upaven C3 27-10-40

R6631 PR-Q 609S 16-8-40 Shot down by Bf109 on interception off Isle of Wight 28-11-40 FH93.10

R6634 609S 4-6-40 Damaged by return fire from Ju88 and abandoned 5m off Swanage Dorset 18-7-40

R6636 PR-F online profile art/ 609S 'PR-F' 4-6-40 shot down by Ju88 force-landed Studland Beach F/O Edge safe C2 18-7-40 SOC 26-7-40

R6637 609S 'PR-Q' 4-6-40 Missing from interception off Portland Bill F/O Drummond-Hay killed 9-7-40

R6690 PR-Q ? Osprey book/ PR-A.. online profile art/ALSO PR-Q 609S 'PR-A' 7-6-40 shot down by Bf110 over S London P/O Daunt killed 15-9-40

R6691 PR-J 609S 7-6-40 C2 ops 25-9-40 AST 616S 10-11-40

--R6692 PR-T AND K 609S 7-6-40 Overstressed attacking Ju88 CE 12-8-40 SOC 2-9-40

R6699 PR-L 609S 7-6-40 C2 ops 25-9-40 AST

R6706 74S 12-7-40 damaged by Bf109 28-7-40 609S 26-9-40 66S 24-2-41

R6769 PR-D 609S 31-7-40 C2 night landing accident 2-9-40 AST

R6915 PR-U and O 609S 'PR-U' 21-7-40 damaged by He111 force-landed White Waltham 7-9-40 damaged by He111 force-landed White Waltham 30-9-40 damaged by Bf109 force-landed F/O Dundas injured 7-10-40 602S 1-41

R6922 PR-T 609S 15-8-40 FAC2 15-9-40 AST 92S 15-10-40

R6961 PR-P 609S 13-8-40 61OTU 1-7-41

R6977 PR-N 609S 22-7-40 64S 6-12-40

R6979 609S 22-7-40 FACB 26-9-40

R6986 PR-S 609S 28-7-40 611S 24-11-40

X4107 PR-F 609S 16-8-40 air collision Bf110 nr Weybridge P/O R F G Miller killed C3 27-9-40

X4165 PR-N 609S 16-8-40 66S 15-4-41

X4173 609S 28-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4234 PR-B 609S 24-8-40 damaged combat P/O Staples safe 27-9-40 AST 66S 13-10-40

X4331 609S 28-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4471 PR-R 609S 18-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4472 609S 18-9-40 C2 ops 8-10-40

X4539 609S 29-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4560 PR-H 609S 2-10-40 C2 ops 8-11-40 GAL 123S 14-7-41

X4586 609S 'PR-O' 8-10-40 Shot down by Bf109 SW of Isle of Wight 28-11-40 FH37.55 F/Lt J C Dundas DFC killed

X4587 609S 8-10-40 66S 24-2-41

X4588 609S 8-10-40 FAC3 2-12-40

X4590 PR-F 609S 12-10-40 damaged 25-10-40

X4598 609S 29-10-40 AST 2-2-41

X4773 609S 9-1-41 57OTU 12-6-41

X4778 609S DGRD 1-12-40 66S 24-2-41

Supermarine Spitfire MkII

P7292

P7440

P7490

P7600

P7625

P7625

P7668

P7669

P7671

P7785

P7830 / 50

P7835

P7835

P7881

P8032

P8098 PR-Z online profile art/

P8264 PR-H online profile art/

[Hutch]

Hutch - yes, I saw your original request a while back but did not respond as I could not find a definite code. I don't have access to the squadron's logbooks, but I found a few excerpts from them by doing online searches.

There is FilePhotoService in the UK that can provide you with digital copies of materials from the National Archives, but there is a fee of course. There are no guarantees, as it has been pointed out to me most time logbook entries usually just have serial codes named but not the squadron codes.

Best I can do for you is provide my working list of 609 codes. Compare them to the aircraft flying that day (or that week?) in question and eliminate the individual codes that N3231 could not be. Another approach is to find the aircraft serial that was damaged/destroyed a day or two before N331 arrived at 609, or conversely the aircraft that replaced Staples destroyed craft. It is possible they shared the same individual code.

regards,

Jack

Supermarine Spitfire MkI

K9815 609S 13-7-40 Pilot blinded by glycol fumes crash-landed Piddlehinton Dorset 26-7-40 SOC 1-8-40 FH286.15

K9825 609S 13-7-40 FACA 14-7-40

K9841 PR-R 609S 18-7-40 damaged ops 12-8-40 AST 12-8-40 609S 18-8-40 616S 25-8-40

K9997 609S 4-6-40 damaged enemy action 12-8-40 7OTU 5-10-40

L1007 609S 18-4-40 as proto MkIB 72S Drem shot down Heinkel over Scotland 1-40 ? Landed on top of L1085 on landing Drem 15-5-40 SOC CE 28-5-40

L1008 PR-K 609S 8-6-40 RAE 6-40 pilot F/Lt J Dundas force-landed Glastonbury Sgt Hughes-Rees safe 25-9-40 C2

L1058

L1060

L1063

L1064

L1065 PR-E and T 609S 6-9-39 7OTU 5-11-40 write-off sept.3 burst tyre on landing Ogilvie

L1068 609S 6-9-39 FA 25-5-40

L1069 609S 3-9-39 FTR after combat over Portland F/Lt Barran died 11-7-40

L1071 609S 6-9-39 MMO 29-3-40

L1081 609S 19-8-39 Missing while escorting Defiants over Dunkerque 31-5-40

L1082 PR-A 609S 19-8-39 damaged by L1060 Drem 21-11-39 609S shot down by Bf110 nr Ryde IoW P/O Mamedoff safe 24-8-40 58OTU

L1083 609S 29-8-39 54S 8-6-40

L1084 609S 29-8-39 74S 9-5-40

L1086 609S 29-8-39 crashed in bad visibility CE 30-5-40 SOC 7-6-40

L1087 609S 27-8-39 Ditched in Channel during escort for Defiants to Dunkerque 31-5-40

L1088 609S 29-8-39 MMO 18-9-39 610S damaged by L1074 16-10-3

L1095 609S 6-9-39 P/O Mitchell missing into sea 11-7-40

L1096 609S 7-9-39 AST 7-11-40 58OTU

N3023 609S 8-9-39 shot down Weymouth Bay by Bf109 P/O Buchanan killed 27-7-40 FH219.05

N3024 PR-H 609S 11-9-39 Missing off Sussex coast raid on Middle Wallop 14-8-40 F/O McD Goodwin missing

N3025 609S 11-9-39 undershot landing Drem 19-3-40 SOC CE 13-5-40

N3113 609S 10-8-40 C2 ops 30-9-40

N3202 609S 16-4-40 FTR ops 31-5-40

N3203 609S 25-4-40 damaged ops CB 17-7-40

N3222 609S 25-4-40 Missing after attack on He111s nr Dunkerque 1-6-40

N3223 PR-M 609S 25-4-40 u/c jam F/O Nowierski abandoned aircraft crashed nr Middle Wallop 5-10-40

N3231 609S 28-9-40 shot down by Bf109 nr Sutton Waldron P/O Staples abandoned aircraft injured 7-10-40

N3238 609S 28-9-40 shot down by Bf109 over Yeovil Sgt Feary abandoned aircraft killed 7-10-40

N3270 609S 11-12-40 66S 'LZ-F' 24-2-41

>N3280 234S 25-4-40 609S 5-9-40 C2 ops 25-9-40 AST 41S 20-10-40

N3288 PR-S 609S 18-9-40 C2 ops 26-9-40

P9322 PR-L online profile art/ 609S 8-6-40 damaged by Bf110 25-8-40 AST 61OTU 16-8-41

P9427 609S 25-4-40 C2 ops 25-5-40 MMO 74S 21-8-40

P9467 609S 4-6-40 C2 ops 12-7-40 1CRU 603S

P9503 609S 26-9-40 Damaged by return fire from bomber P/O Baillon aircraft abandoned nr Upaven C3 27-10-40

R6631 PR-Q 609S 16-8-40 Shot down by Bf109 on interception off Isle of Wight 28-11-40 FH93.10

R6634 609S 4-6-40 Damaged by return fire from Ju88 and abandoned 5m off Swanage Dorset 18-7-40

R6636 PR-F online profile art/ 609S 'PR-F' 4-6-40 shot down by Ju88 force-landed Studland Beach F/O Edge safe C2 18-7-40 SOC 26-7-40

R6637 609S 'PR-Q' 4-6-40 Missing from interception off Portland Bill F/O Drummond-Hay killed 9-7-40

R6690 PR-Q ? Osprey book/ PR-A.. online profile art/ALSO PR-Q 609S 'PR-A' 7-6-40 shot down by Bf110 over S London P/O Daunt killed 15-9-40

R6691 PR-J 609S 7-6-40 C2 ops 25-9-40 AST 616S 10-11-40

--R6692 PR-T AND K 609S 7-6-40 Overstressed attacking Ju88 CE 12-8-40 SOC 2-9-40

R6699 PR-L 609S 7-6-40 C2 ops 25-9-40 AST

R6706 74S 12-7-40 damaged by Bf109 28-7-40 609S 26-9-40 66S 24-2-41

R6769 PR-D 609S 31-7-40 C2 night landing accident 2-9-40 AST

R6915 PR-U and O 609S 'PR-U' 21-7-40 damaged by He111 force-landed White Waltham 7-9-40 damaged by He111 force-landed White Waltham 30-9-40 damaged by Bf109 force-landed F/O Dundas injured 7-10-40 602S 1-41

R6922 PR-T 609S 15-8-40 FAC2 15-9-40 AST 92S 15-10-40

R6961 PR-P 609S 13-8-40 61OTU 1-7-41

R6977 PR-N 609S 22-7-40 64S 6-12-40

R6979 609S 22-7-40 FACB 26-9-40

R6986 PR-S 609S 28-7-40 611S 24-11-40

X4107 PR-F 609S 16-8-40 air collision Bf110 nr Weybridge P/O R F G Miller killed C3 27-9-40

X4165 PR-N 609S 16-8-40 66S 15-4-41

X4173 609S 28-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4234 PR-B 609S 24-8-40 damaged combat P/O Staples safe 27-9-40 AST 66S 13-10-40

X4331 609S 28-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4471 PR-R 609S 18-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4472 609S 18-9-40 C2 ops 8-10-40

X4539 609S 29-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4560 PR-H 609S 2-10-40 C2 ops 8-11-40 GAL 123S 14-7-41

X4586 609S 'PR-O' 8-10-40 Shot down by Bf109 SW of Isle of Wight 28-11-40 FH37.55 F/Lt J C Dundas DFC killed

X4587 609S 8-10-40 66S 24-2-41

X4588 609S 8-10-40 FAC3 2-12-40

X4590 PR-F 609S 12-10-40 damaged 25-10-40

X4598 609S 29-10-40 AST 2-2-41

X4773 609S 9-1-41 57OTU 12-6-41

X4778 609S DGRD 1-12-40 66S 24-2-41

Supermarine Spitfire MkII

P7292

P7440

P7490

P7600

P7625

P7625

P7668

P7669

P7671

P7785

P7830 / 50

P7835

P7835

P7881

P8032

P8098 PR-Z online profile art/

P8264 PR-H online profile art/

Many thanks Jack. I'll keep looking..... I should have a few more years before I'll have to give up!!!!

Regards

Hutch

[David Layton]

I am building a Tamiya 1/48 R6690 as flown by Dundas, (Aeromaster decals.) I have various depictions of the aircraft showing Rotal propeller, but it is stated to be a Mk.I. What is the correct prop and did this aircraft have the fishtail exhausts? I have the Ultracast Rotol prop, so I hope the depictions are correct.

Edited April 29, 2012 by David Layton

[Test Graham]

Spitfire Mk.Is appeared with the Rotol prop as early as Dunkirk, so there's no absolute rule, other than that they were in a minority. Sorry I can't help with the particular example.

[merlin3945]

A good book for 609 reference photos would be "609 at war".

can be hard to find and sometimes expensive but I wont ever part with my copy.

[Spitfire609]

Hutch - yes, I saw your original request a while back but did not respond as I could not find a definite code. I don't have access to the squadron's logbooks, but I found a few excerpts from them by doing online searches.

There is FilePhotoService in the UK that can provide you with digital copies of materials from the National Archives, but there is a fee of course. There are no guarantees, as it has been pointed out to me most time logbook entries usually just have serial codes named but not the squadron codes.

Best I can do for you is provide my working list of 609 codes. Compare them to the aircraft flying that day (or that week?) in question and eliminate the individual codes that N3231 could not be. Another approach is to find the aircraft serial that was damaged/destroyed a day or two before N331 arrived at 609, or conversely the aircraft that replaced Staples destroyed craft. It is possible they shared the same individual code.

regards,

Jack

Supermarine Spitfire MkI

K9815 609S 13-7-40 Pilot blinded by glycol fumes crash-landed Piddlehinton Dorset 26-7-40 SOC 1-8-40 FH286.15

K9825 609S 13-7-40 FACA 14-7-40

K9841 PR-R 609S 18-7-40 damaged ops 12-8-40 AST 12-8-40 609S 18-8-40 616S 25-8-40

K9997 609S 4-6-40 damaged enemy action 12-8-40 7OTU 5-10-40

L1007 609S 18-4-40 as proto MkIB 72S Drem shot down Heinkel over Scotland 1-40 ? Landed on top of L1085 on landing Drem 15-5-40 SOC CE 28-5-40

L1008 PR-K 609S 8-6-40 RAE 6-40 pilot F/Lt J Dundas force-landed Glastonbury Sgt Hughes-Rees safe 25-9-40 C2

L1058

L1060

L1063

L1064

L1065 PR-E and T 609S 6-9-39 7OTU 5-11-40 write-off sept.3 burst tyre on landing Ogilvie

L1068 609S 6-9-39 FA 25-5-40

L1069 609S 3-9-39 FTR after combat over Portland F/Lt Barran died 11-7-40

L1071 609S 6-9-39 MMO 29-3-40

L1081 609S 19-8-39 Missing while escorting Defiants over Dunkerque 31-5-40

L1082 PR-A 609S 19-8-39 damaged by L1060 Drem 21-11-39 609S shot down by Bf110 nr Ryde IoW P/O Mamedoff safe 24-8-40 58OTU

L1083 609S 29-8-39 54S 8-6-40

L1084 609S 29-8-39 74S 9-5-40

L1086 609S 29-8-39 crashed in bad visibility CE 30-5-40 SOC 7-6-40

L1087 609S 27-8-39 Ditched in Channel during escort for Defiants to Dunkerque 31-5-40

L1088 609S 29-8-39 MMO 18-9-39 610S damaged by L1074 16-10-3

L1095 609S 6-9-39 P/O Mitchell missing into sea 11-7-40

L1096 609S 7-9-39 AST 7-11-40 58OTU

N3023 609S 8-9-39 shot down Weymouth Bay by Bf109 P/O Buchanan killed 27-7-40 FH219.05

N3024 PR-H 609S 11-9-39 Missing off Sussex coast raid on Middle Wallop 14-8-40 F/O McD Goodwin missing

N3025 609S 11-9-39 undershot landing Drem 19-3-40 SOC CE 13-5-40

N3113 609S 10-8-40 C2 ops 30-9-40

N3202 609S 16-4-40 FTR ops 31-5-40

N3203 609S 25-4-40 damaged ops CB 17-7-40

N3222 609S 25-4-40 Missing after attack on He111s nr Dunkerque 1-6-40

N3223 PR-M 609S 25-4-40 u/c jam F/O Nowierski abandoned aircraft crashed nr Middle Wallop 5-10-40

N3231 609S 28-9-40 shot down by Bf109 nr Sutton Waldron P/O Staples abandoned aircraft injured 7-10-40

N3238 609S 28-9-40 shot down by Bf109 over Yeovil Sgt Feary abandoned aircraft killed 7-10-40

N3270 609S 11-12-40 66S 'LZ-F' 24-2-41

>N3280 234S 25-4-40 609S 5-9-40 C2 ops 25-9-40 AST 41S 20-10-40

N3288 PR-S 609S 18-9-40 C2 ops 26-9-40

P9322 PR-L online profile art/ 609S 8-6-40 damaged by Bf110 25-8-40 AST 61OTU 16-8-41

P9427 609S 25-4-40 C2 ops 25-5-40 MMO 74S 21-8-40

P9467 609S 4-6-40 C2 ops 12-7-40 1CRU 603S

P9503 609S 26-9-40 Damaged by return fire from bomber P/O Baillon aircraft abandoned nr Upaven C3 27-10-40

R6631 PR-Q 609S 16-8-40 Shot down by Bf109 on interception off Isle of Wight 28-11-40 FH93.10

R6634 609S 4-6-40 Damaged by return fire from Ju88 and abandoned 5m off Swanage Dorset 18-7-40

R6636 PR-F online profile art/ 609S 'PR-F' 4-6-40 shot down by Ju88 force-landed Studland Beach F/O Edge safe C2 18-7-40 SOC 26-7-40

R6637 609S 'PR-Q' 4-6-40 Missing from interception off Portland Bill F/O Drummond-Hay killed 9-7-40

R6690 PR-Q ? Osprey book/ PR-A.. online profile art/ALSO PR-Q 609S 'PR-A' 7-6-40 shot down by Bf110 over S London P/O Daunt killed 15-9-40

R6691 PR-J 609S 7-6-40 C2 ops 25-9-40 AST 616S 10-11-40

--R6692 PR-T AND K 609S 7-6-40 Overstressed attacking Ju88 CE 12-8-40 SOC 2-9-40

R6699 PR-L 609S 7-6-40 C2 ops 25-9-40 AST

R6706 74S 12-7-40 damaged by Bf109 28-7-40 609S 26-9-40 66S 24-2-41

R6769 PR-D 609S 31-7-40 C2 night landing accident 2-9-40 AST

R6915 PR-U and O 609S 'PR-U' 21-7-40 damaged by He111 force-landed White Waltham 7-9-40 damaged by He111 force-landed White Waltham 30-9-40 damaged by Bf109 force-landed F/O Dundas injured 7-10-40 602S 1-41

R6922 PR-T 609S 15-8-40 FAC2 15-9-40 AST 92S 15-10-40

R6961 PR-P 609S 13-8-40 61OTU 1-7-41

R6977 PR-N 609S 22-7-40 64S 6-12-40

R6979 609S 22-7-40 FACB 26-9-40

R6986 PR-S 609S 28-7-40 611S 24-11-40

X4107 PR-F 609S 16-8-40 air collision Bf110 nr Weybridge P/O R F G Miller killed C3 27-9-40

X4165 PR-N 609S 16-8-40 66S 15-4-41

X4173 609S 28-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4234 PR-B 609S 24-8-40 damaged combat P/O Staples safe 27-9-40 AST 66S 13-10-40

X4331 609S 28-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4471 PR-R 609S 18-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4472 609S 18-9-40 C2 ops 8-10-40

X4539 609S 29-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4560 PR-H 609S 2-10-40 C2 ops 8-11-40 GAL 123S 14-7-41

X4586 609S 'PR-O' 8-10-40 Shot down by Bf109 SW of Isle of Wight 28-11-40 FH37.55 F/Lt J C Dundas DFC killed

X4587 609S 8-10-40 66S 24-2-41

X4588 609S 8-10-40 FAC3 2-12-40

X4590 PR-F 609S 12-10-40 damaged 25-10-40

X4598 609S 29-10-40 AST 2-2-41

X4773 609S 9-1-41 57OTU 12-6-41

X4778 609S DGRD 1-12-40 66S 24-2-41

Supermarine Spitfire MkII

P7292

P7440

P7490

P7600

P7625

P7625

P7668

P7669

P7671

P7785

P7830 / 50

P7835

P7835

P7881

P8032

P8098 PR-Z online profile art/

P8264 PR-H online profile art/

I am the grandson of Spitfire Ace of the Battle of Britain, 609 Squadron Pilot Sgt. Alan Norman FEARY (742301). I am compiling a list of the 609 Squadron codes. I see how passionate you all are about this subject I was hoping for some help to discover the missing codes. The linked document lists the Serial Number of every Spitfire the 609 Squadron was issued during WWII with the corresponding known Squadron codes. The link supplied allows editing of the document so please be sure of your source before adding information to it and please don't remove information you consider incorrect, just add a comment why you think it is wrong and I will review the evidence. I am hoping with enough help to fill in the majority of missing codes. My grandfather died in Spitfire Mk IIa N3238 so I am particularly keen to learn that aircrafts Squadron code, I have been searching for it for quite a while now. Of course anyone that helps is more than welcome to use the document as a reference.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XLgwxBmu48kzU31bVP4xhbTlP7CvwLx4jWajeOEqDQQ/edit?usp=sharing .

[tonyot]

I`d say that the letters need beefing up myself.

I hope that yours is a different PR-E,......for this one has a different camouflage pattern, the fuselage roundel has a small centre,....also note the small upper wing roundels with the anti gas patch and check out the scuff marks on the wing root!

Here are some more;

Here is a model that I made;

Cheers

Tony

Edited April 18, 2016 by tonyot

[JackG]

Hi Tony, nice looking 609 Spitfire you've got there!

Yes, the one I researched/built flew in September 1940, as piloted by Canadian Alfred Keith “Skeets” Ogilvie.

regards,

Jack

[tonyot]

Cheers Jack and good luck with your model which is coming along really well.

All the best

Tony

[JackG]

Hi Tony, thanks - but yeah, this is an old thread and the model was completed over four years ago. It turned out good, but photos are not my best, can be seen RFI section:

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234911124-609-spitfire/

regards,

Jack

[Neal]

On 12/30/2011 at 6:17 PM, JackG said:

Hutch - yes, I saw your original request a while back but did not respond as I could not find a definite code. I don't have access to the squadron's logbooks, but I found a few excerpts from them by doing online searches.

There is FilePhotoService in the UK that can provide you with digital copies of materials from the National Archives, but there is a fee of course. There are no guarantees, as it has been pointed out to me most time logbook entries usually just have serial codes named but not the squadron codes.

Best I can do for you is provide my working list of 609 codes. Compare them to the aircraft flying that day (or that week?) in question and eliminate the individual codes that N3231 could not be. Another approach is to find the aircraft serial that was damaged/destroyed a day or two before N331 arrived at 609, or conversely the aircraft that replaced Staples destroyed craft. It is possible they shared the same individual code.

regards,

Jack

Supermarine Spitfire MkI

K9815 609S 13-7-40 Pilot blinded by glycol fumes crash-landed Piddlehinton Dorset 26-7-40 SOC 1-8-40 FH286.15

K9825 609S 13-7-40 FACA 14-7-40

K9841 PR-R 609S 18-7-40 damaged ops 12-8-40 AST 12-8-40 609S 18-8-40 616S 25-8-40

K9997 609S 4-6-40 damaged enemy action 12-8-40 7OTU 5-10-40

L1007 609S 18-4-40 as proto MkIB 72S Drem shot down Heinkel over Scotland 1-40 ? Landed on top of L1085 on landing Drem 15-5-40 SOC CE 28-5-40

L1008 PR-K 609S 8-6-40 RAE 6-40 pilot F/Lt J Dundas force-landed Glastonbury Sgt Hughes-Rees safe 25-9-40 C2

L1058

L1060

L1063

L1064

L1065 PR-E and T 609S 6-9-39 7OTU 5-11-40 write-off sept.3 burst tyre on landing Ogilvie

L1068 609S 6-9-39 FA 25-5-40

L1069 609S 3-9-39 FTR after combat over Portland F/Lt Barran died 11-7-40

L1071 609S 6-9-39 MMO 29-3-40

L1081 609S 19-8-39 Missing while escorting Defiants over Dunkerque 31-5-40

L1082 PR-A 609S 19-8-39 damaged by L1060 Drem 21-11-39 609S shot down by Bf110 nr Ryde IoW P/O Mamedoff safe 24-8-40 58OTU

L1083 609S 29-8-39 54S 8-6-40

L1084 609S 29-8-39 74S 9-5-40

L1086 609S 29-8-39 crashed in bad visibility CE 30-5-40 SOC 7-6-40

L1087 609S 27-8-39 Ditched in Channel during escort for Defiants to Dunkerque 31-5-40

L1088 609S 29-8-39 MMO 18-9-39 610S damaged by L1074 16-10-3

L1095 609S 6-9-39 P/O Mitchell missing into sea 11-7-40

L1096 609S 7-9-39 AST 7-11-40 58OTU

N3023 609S 8-9-39 shot down Weymouth Bay by Bf109 P/O Buchanan killed 27-7-40 FH219.05

N3024 PR-H 609S 11-9-39 Missing off Sussex coast raid on Middle Wallop 14-8-40 F/O McD Goodwin missing

N3025 609S 11-9-39 undershot landing Drem 19-3-40 SOC CE 13-5-40

N3113 609S 10-8-40 C2 ops 30-9-40

N3202 609S 16-4-40 FTR ops 31-5-40

N3203 609S 25-4-40 damaged ops CB 17-7-40

N3222 609S 25-4-40 Missing after attack on He111s nr Dunkerque 1-6-40

N3223 PR-M 609S 25-4-40 u/c jam F/O Nowierski abandoned aircraft crashed nr Middle Wallop 5-10-40

N3231 609S 28-9-40 shot down by Bf109 nr Sutton Waldron P/O Staples abandoned aircraft injured 7-10-40

N3238 609S 28-9-40 shot down by Bf109 over Yeovil Sgt Feary abandoned aircraft killed 7-10-40

N3270 609S 11-12-40 66S 'LZ-F' 24-2-41

>N3280 234S 25-4-40 609S 5-9-40 C2 ops 25-9-40 AST 41S 20-10-40

N3288 PR-S 609S 18-9-40 C2 ops 26-9-40

P9322 PR-L online profile art/ 609S 8-6-40 damaged by Bf110 25-8-40 AST 61OTU 16-8-41

P9427 609S 25-4-40 C2 ops 25-5-40 MMO 74S 21-8-40

P9467 609S 4-6-40 C2 ops 12-7-40 1CRU 603S

P9503 609S 26-9-40 Damaged by return fire from bomber P/O Baillon aircraft abandoned nr Upaven C3 27-10-40

R6631 PR-Q 609S 16-8-40 Shot down by Bf109 on interception off Isle of Wight 28-11-40 FH93.10

R6634 609S 4-6-40 Damaged by return fire from Ju88 and abandoned 5m off Swanage Dorset 18-7-40

R6636 PR-F online profile art/ 609S 'PR-F' 4-6-40 shot down by Ju88 force-landed Studland Beach F/O Edge safe C2 18-7-40 SOC 26-7-40

R6637 609S 'PR-Q' 4-6-40 Missing from interception off Portland Bill F/O Drummond-Hay killed 9-7-40

R6690 PR-Q ? Osprey book/ PR-A.. online profile art/ALSO PR-Q 609S 'PR-A' 7-6-40 shot down by Bf110 over S London P/O Daunt killed 15-9-40

R6691 PR-J 609S 7-6-40 C2 ops 25-9-40 AST 616S 10-11-40

--R6692 PR-T AND K 609S 7-6-40 Overstressed attacking Ju88 CE 12-8-40 SOC 2-9-40

R6699 PR-L 609S 7-6-40 C2 ops 25-9-40 AST

R6706 74S 12-7-40 damaged by Bf109 28-7-40 609S 26-9-40 66S 24-2-41

R6769 PR-D 609S 31-7-40 C2 night landing accident 2-9-40 AST

R6915 PR-U and O 609S 'PR-U' 21-7-40 damaged by He111 force-landed White Waltham 7-9-40 damaged by He111 force-landed White Waltham 30-9-40 damaged by Bf109 force-landed F/O Dundas injured 7-10-40 602S 1-41

R6922 PR-T 609S 15-8-40 FAC2 15-9-40 AST 92S 15-10-40

R6961 PR-P 609S 13-8-40 61OTU 1-7-41

R6977 PR-N 609S 22-7-40 64S 6-12-40

R6979 609S 22-7-40 FACB 26-9-40

R6986 PR-S 609S 28-7-40 611S 24-11-40

X4107 PR-F 609S 16-8-40 air collision Bf110 nr Weybridge P/O R F G Miller killed C3 27-9-40

X4165 PR-N 609S 16-8-40 66S 15-4-41

X4173 609S 28-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4234 PR-B 609S 24-8-40 damaged combat P/O Staples safe 27-9-40 AST 66S 13-10-40

X4331 609S 28-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4471 PR-R 609S 18-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4472 609S 18-9-40 C2 ops 8-10-40

X4539 609S 29-9-40 66S 24-2-41

X4560 PR-H 609S 2-10-40 C2 ops 8-11-40 GAL 123S 14-7-41

X4586 609S 'PR-O' 8-10-40 Shot down by Bf109 SW of Isle of Wight 28-11-40 FH37.55 F/Lt J C Dundas DFC killed

X4587 609S 8-10-40 66S 24-2-41

X4588 609S 8-10-40 FAC3 2-12-40

X4590 PR-F 609S 12-10-40 damaged 25-10-40

X4598 609S 29-10-40 AST 2-2-41

X4773 609S 9-1-41 57OTU 12-6-41

X4778 609S DGRD 1-12-40 66S 24-2-41

Supermarine Spitfire MkII

P7292

P7440

P7490

P7600

P7625

P7625

P7668

P7669

P7671

P7785

P7830 / 50

P7835

P7835

P7881

P8032

P8098 PR-Z online profile art/

P8264 PR-H online profile art/

Jack, that’s a cracking bit of research you’ve done there. 
I’m slowly building all the main aircraft 609 flew in 1/72 and was going to skip the MkII as I didn’t have any codes or service numbers, now I’ll add one to the list 👍🏻