Supermarine Spitfire Greeting Card.

Supermarine Spitfire greeting or birthday card from the RAFs 129 Squadron.

High quality and detailed greeting card of the Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc painted in the colours from 129 Squadron.

On 11th September 1942 Spitfire MK Vc EE602 was built by Westland in Yeovil, Somerset under contract number B124305/40. When built, EE602 was fitted with the universal ‘C’ wing configuration. This allowed it to be fitted either with 8 machine guns, 4 20mm canons or a mix of 4 .303 machine guns and two 20mm canons. This aircraft had the mix of machine guns and cannons. It was fitted with a Rolls Royce Merlin 46 engine. This produced 1,415 bhp at 3,000 rpm.

This aircraft completed over 100 Missions including escorting the Flying Fortress ‘Memphis Belle’ back to the English coast after her now famous 25th Mission with 129 squadron.

Card is 145mm x 145mm square. (5 ¾" square approximately)