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No idea then what he was flying. If it was in 1941 then it probably was a F4.While I cannot find any source that describes Balthasar's aircraft as an F1, there are many that give the W.Nr.7066 as being an F4.
The Spit Mk.II was the spawn of the Castle Bromwich shadow factory, which explains the delay. Production was:
June-1940-10
July- 23
August- 37
Sept.- 56
As an interesting historical conundrum, some sources say they are faster than the Mk.I, some slower. My grasp suggests that they were slightly slower, but with much greater rate of climb. Opinions vary.Don't they just.
Anyway the Spit II was remarkably minor then as a variant for the BoB if those were the production numbers and they were producing as quickly as feasible. Likely they didn't go direct from factory to combat within the same month either.