Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Since it is Thanksgiving, I'm going to assume you all have better things to do than conducting internet searches and simply drop a couple of clues and check back later tonight. Enjoy the day. Thanks; Ernie P.
What warbird do I describe?
1. This aircraft was not produced in large numbers; although several hundred were built.
2. It served in several different air forces.
3. And it was built in a number of different variants for those several air forces.
4. And, it served in combat for several of those air forces.
5. Some were produced under license by other countries.
6. But, interestingly, it was kept out of combat by the nation that produced it.
7. The producing nation removed it from service before the end of the war in which it served.
8. But it continued in service with other nations for more than a decade longer.
9. Our subject aircraft was itself a development of an earlier model by the same builder.
10. It too was a single engine monoplane.
11. And there was another, prototype, aircraft developed in parallel with our subject aircraft.