Sweden ordered 50 surplus Spitfire Mk XIXs which had never been put into RAF service and were available for immediate delivery.They entered Swedish service during the beginning of 1949, with the Swedish designation S 31.
They retained their PRU Blue paint, but were often repainted with any blue paint.
Camera fit was two vertical cameras with a focal lenght of 920 mm and one oblique with 350 mm. Normal altitude for vertical photography was 9000 m.
They were retired in 1955.

Nice! I forget where I read it but apparently Swedish PR.XIXs with the pilots wearing civilian clothes performed a number of flights over Soviet territory.

Thanks Harry.
This weekends photo.
A very scruffy looking RCAF 442 Squadron Short Sunderland, photo taken on April 15 1943.

This weekends extra & something slightly different.
A Soviet-built MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter flown by Major (MAJ) Peter Meisberger, from Germany's (DEU) 73rd Fighter Wing (FW), Laage Air Base (AB), Germany, fires a radar guided AA-10 "Alamo" short-burn air-to-air missile at a QF-4 "Rhino" full-scale aerial target drone during a live-fire weapons training mission

Wednesdays photo, taken December 26th 1939 at Lindbergh Field ( San Diego International Airport).
A nice crisp shot of the XB-24.

This weekends photo's both taken at Zurich Kloten.
I miss the old airline liveries.

This weekends extra and a glorious photo of Boeing 377-10-29 Stratocruiser N90941 (Flagship Great Britain) of AOA American Overseas Airlines in Zurich-Kloten circa 1949.

This midweeks photo's and some very interesting shots of a RCAF B-18 "Digby" used for various radar experiments 1941/2 at Rockcliffe Ontario.

This weekends photo's.
Five this week of the Caproni Ca.313 which was an Italian twin-engine reconnaissance bomber of the late-1930s. It was a development of the Ca.310.
Sweden ordered 84 aircraft, Swedish Air Force designations were B 16, S 16, T 16, and Tp 16.
During the war years this machine, with its ten-hour endurance, was the only one capable of patrolling around Sweden, it was removed from service soon after the end of the war.

This weekends extra and an amazing shot of a F-5 taken around D-day.