Ray Sturtivant and Dick Cronin's volume is the favourite of the aviation references shown because it joins day-by-day unit history to visual identification. Its colour plates record paint schemes, badges, geometric markings, and ship associations, allowing a modeller or researcher to reconstruct examples such as HMS Warspite's Swordfish. A sample entry follows 404 Flight from HMS Furious through the China Station, anti-piracy patrols, Palestine, Malta, and later shore bases. Markings are tied to deployments and operations instead of being presented as decoration without context. The book is especially useful for identifying when and where a photographed interwar Fleet Air Arm aircraft served.
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Reconstructing interwar Fleet Air Arm units and markings
Fleet Air Arm Aircraft, Units and Ships, 1920-1939 combines operational chronology with colour schemes and markings for individual aircraft and flights.