Hataka Lacquer Aluminium

ORANGE LINE – LACQUER BASE

Overall colour of IAF Mirage IIIs from their introduction in 1962 to early 1970s, until switch to „1970’s desert colours”

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Standard colour of early IAF’s P-51Ds and Mosquito PRs and FBs. Later overall colour of leading fighter interceptors of IAF

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Used for all kinds of metallic interior elements and pieces of crew personal equipment

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Overall colour of early Luftwaffe CL-13 Sabre, F-84 Thunderstreak and F/TF-104G Starfighter (except for lower wing surfaces)

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Used to imitate natural metal colour of lower part of rear fuselage and retracting part of variable-sweep wing of Su-22

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Standard colour of US Navy planes from 1919 till late-1940 (first used on fabric elements only, from mid-1930s also on metal parts)

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Standard overall colour of FAP’s T-6G/Harvard Mk IV, F-84G Thunderjet, F-86F Sabre and T-33A Shooting Star (initial scheme of the latter two)

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Used in 1980s-90s for lower surfaces in the HAF „Aegean Blue” pattern of Mirage F1CG, F-5A, F-4E (but not on Hu-16B)