AIRCRAFT COLOURS AND MARKINGS OF THE FIRST
WORLD WAR ERA
No.66 Sqn RFC/RAF
No.66 Sqn carried a horizontal stripe on their Pups, this was later
augamented with a vertical one forward of the fuselage roundel on the
Camel. The placement of the a/c letter on Hilborn's Camel is most unusual,
and I have yet to see any other 66 Sqn Camel with it in the same location.
When No.45 Sqn returned to France in the summer of 1918, one flight of
66 adopted their marking of a dumbbell in an attempt to fool the Austrians
into thinking all three Camel squadrons were still in Italy.
Many of 66 Sqn's Pups and Camel had the white of their roundels covered
either with paint or dirt