Just a couple of photos of Turkish Beaufighters of exist and most show them in their initial stages of use. All we can say here, until more definitive photographic evidence appears, is that these machines were Dark Green and Park Sea Grey over Medium Sea Grey. RAF roundels had been overpainted on the fuselage (in green), upper (green) and lower (light grey) wingsurfaces.The Type CI fin flashes were also still slightly visible under the overspruy of green. The entire rudder was red with the crescent and star insignia of Turkey in white high up on it (the crescent faced aft nn both sides). Turkish national insignia (45in square) were applied over the RAF roundels under each wing, although the photos do not seem to suggest that this was also done above the wings. A single call-sum letter (e.g.'R') was applied aft of the old fuselage roundel location in 24in high yellow characters.
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