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OK BOYS, SEE IF YOU CAN SOLVE THIS ONE.

I used to mistake North American part numbers for USAAF/USAF S/Ns all the time until the numbers just didn't make anysense. Perhaps this is a North American part number for a part that would have gone on a T-6. As for which part I have no clue.

Mike

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Thanks a very good premise Mike and you right it's easy to mistake them.
This plate is defently a aircraft data plate. I wonder if someone just just threw some numbers on it to make it look good???

Any chance that could be some sort of a cross referance with an RAF/RCAF serial from an early U.S.-built Harvard? Jim

hi

Jack, my thinking was that due perhaps to Neutrality restrictions of the time, NA might have had to make the early Haravrds (built in Dallas) with data plates showing a US-looking serial, with the fiscal-year deignator '41' preceding it's future RCAF s/n. I thought the last four of the serial might tie in with one of those aircraft that were delivered to Canada, which then would have become 'RCAF-3279.' A quick search of the NA Harvard II serials (which would have been built 1940-41) in the excellent book by Fletcher and Macphail shows that there were serial blocks 3014-3033, 3134-3233, and 3761-3841. 3279 does not fit into these.... Jim

Jack, my thinking was that due perhaps to Neutrality restrictions of the time, NA might have had to make the early Haravrds (built in Dallas) with data plates showing a US-looking serial, with the fiscal-year deignator '41' preceding it's future RCAF s/n. I thought the last four of the serial might tie in with one of those aircraft that were delivered to Canada, which then would have become 'RCAF-3279.' A quick search of the NA Harvard II serials (which would have been built 1940-41) in the excellent book by Fletcher and Macphail shows that there were serial blocks 3014-3033, 3134-3233, and 3761-3841. 3279 does not fit into these.... Jim

The mystery deapens Jim.
BTW if you ever want those pictures of JCW's Spartan NP-1 just let me know.

Sorry for the double post guys... still learning the new system! Jack, I would love to see those NE-1 photos sometime.... I'm surprised you rememberd! Thanks! Jim

Err....sorry.... that would be NP-1..... MAN, is it THAT late already??? :0)

Jack, there is a block of AT-6Cs 41-32768-41-837, maybe they left off a number