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Originally Posted by StephenLawson
Hello Langdon,
I have been following this thread pretty closely. My comments were made just to fill what I see as gaps in the conversation. You have to remember that some of your readers here don't have the same research background as we do. I greatly respect Dan, Alan and yourself. But lets face facts. The stencilling was a requirement whether camouflage was present or not. Even training aircraft that had NO camouflage had to have serials and werke numbers present. If Dr.I 425/17 was overpainted at the factory the serial and werke numbers would have still been applied. Maybe they were overpainted after assembly in the factory or in the field. There was considerable over painting done to this machine as the crosses were changed at least three times in a very short period. We are not talking about the whole airframe but all cross areas and possibly even a rudder change. The chipped area I mentioned would certainly have been overpainted in a reasonable amount of time.
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Stephen, thanks for the clarification, point taken.
I agree with you (on all points is seems) that the aircraft would have to leave the factory with its required stencilling . I doubt if that could be over-painted prior to leaving the factory though and still comply with the requirement but it does lead us back to considering if the aircraft was delivered in CDL on the upper surfaces or red and either way with stencils, and either way it seems to be a special delivery that ended up with a special pilot, my feeling is this was not coincidental.