Wow! Good eyes
Certainly looks to have the sky tail band. I wonder if it was early after delivery before it might have been painted out?
I've seen photos of Spits with the Sky band still there too.
As you can probably tell, I'm big on photo back up
Image of a mix and match SEAC Spit XIV trio with all kinds of differences in the markings in the same Squadron.
Front with black serial, sky tail band, gray/green camo.
2nd with white serial, no tail band, gray/green camo
back with green brown camo, black serial if at all.
I guess it leaves room for some artist discretion
Hard to say about the wing stripe. Time to start digging deeper in my library I guess
Dan/Slack