ORIGINAL: langley
After checking It appears I was wrong! However as far as I tell 260 squadron only had 0ne Kittyhawk II and as for 3 RAAF well I did say RAF not RAAF. As I said in an earlier post Billy Drake also appears to of flow one as well.
MJT
3 RAAF was supplied and equipped from British Kittyhawk deliveries to the Middle East - the aircraft were on British account, not Australian (hence no Aussie A-29 serial on 3 RAAF's aircraft, which all had British MAP/AM serials). And I do seem to recall more than one serial in the FL range (KH II) recorded in the 260 Squadron ORB when I was researching this subject for my MSc. The RAF wanted more, but supply was prioritised on the 12th AF, and as a consequence RAF ME could only operate one squadron at a time on the type.
Most of the F and L Kittyhawks went to the USAAF. So far as I know, the British actual got 126 P-40F's and 45 P-40L's after diversions to the USAAF and French in North Africa.
The Kittyhawk III's were P-40K's and M's, split between the British and Russians (170 P-40M's to Russia, 338 P-40K's and 94 P-40M's to the British in the Middle East, minus some small diversions to South Africa, etc).
By August 1943, the RAF were receiving P-40N's as their allocation of 50 P-40's per month under lend-lease, and that was the only variant remaining in production (although in game terms I don't see why HS can't keep a trickle of L's or whatever in production).
