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PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 8:32 pm 
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AAF Form No. 21A-1 - Navigator's Log [Alternate Version]
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Also, similar to the site mentioned in a previous post, there's a collection of scanned AAF Form No. 5 forms on the Honeylights Letters website.

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Aviation Cadet Form 1, A.A.F.S.E.T.C. (Army Air Forces South East Training Center)

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Aviation Cadet Form 1, A.A.F.S.E.T.C. (Army Air Forces South East Training Center)

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While the following documents may not be part of the official AAF form series, they're still forms:

Pilot's Transition Progress and Qualification Card
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Combat Crew Progress and Qualification Card
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 2:57 pm 
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To answer the question I posed in a previous post, here's another form from one of the collections at the museum. This one belonged to Russell B. Witte, Jr.:

AAF Form No. 23-A - Vertical Cross-Section Forecast
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Very cool - I bet my dad was familiar with this form; he was a USAF weather observer in occupied Japan in the late '40s.

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I recently purchased two Army Air Forces Technical Training Command manuals from eBay and one of them, Air Corps Maintenance System, M-28-3, was a jackpot of Air Corps form information. It lists the following forms:

List of AC Forms (Cont.)
  • AC Form No. 1 - Operations Flight Report
  • AC Form No. 1A - Engineering Flight Report
  • AC Form No. 9 - Flight Envelope
  • AC Form No. 15 - Invoice
  • AC Form No. 17 - Damage to Property Certificate
  • AC Form No. 23 - Clearance for Aircraft
  • AC Form No. 41 - Maintenance Inspection Record
  • AC Form No. 41A - Index of Inspection Instructions
  • AC Form No. 41B - Maintenance-Inspection Record [Ed. This is a version of Form No. 41 in booklet form.]
  • AC Form No. 41C - Maintenance-Inspection Record [Ed. This is a version of Form No. 41B for four-engine airplanes.]
  • AC Form No. 43 - Armament Inspection Record
  • AC Form No. 44 - Radio Inspection and Maintenance Record
  • AC Form No. 45 - Aerial Camera Inspection Record
  • AC Form No. 46 - Parachute Record
  • AC Form No. 48 - Work Order
  • AC Form No. 49 - Serviceable Part Tag
  • AC Form No. 50 - Repairable Part Routing Tag
  • AC Form No. 51 - Condemned Part Tag
  • AC Form No. 54 - Unsatisfactory Report
  • AC Form No. 55 - Technical Order Compliance Reports
  • AC Form No. 58 - Parachute Inspection and Drop Test Card
  • AC Form No. 60A - Technical Instruction Compliance Record [Aircraft]
  • AC Form No. 60B - Technical Instruction Compliance Record [Engine]
  • AC Form No. 61 - Propeller Historical Record
  • AC Form No. 81 - Stores Charge
  • AC Form No. 82 - Stores Credit
  • AC Form No. 83 - Identification Tag
  • AC Form No. 83A - Identification Tag for U.R. Exhibits
  • AC Form No. 99 - Memorandum Receipt
  • AC Form No. 241 - Instruction Slip
  • AC Form No. 249 - Stores Exchange

Three other non-Air Corps forms are also noted in the manual:

List of Non-AC Forms
  • [Unnumbered] - Forced Landing Report
  • IDG Form No. 1 - Inspection and Inventory Report
  • AGO Form No. 15 - Report of Survey

There is a lot of usage information - too much to include it all here - but one particularly useful note is the contents of Form No. 9:
  • One pad, Invoices, Air Corps Form No. 15.
  • Six each, Damage to Property Certificate, Air Corps Form No. 17.
  • Twelve each, Government Telegrams, Standard Form No. 14A.
  • Six sheets, Blank Paper, Letter Size.
  • Three Penalty Envelopes.
  • One Indelible Pencil.
  • One copy, Army Regulations 95-120.
  • One copy, Technical Order No. 01-1-31.
  • One copy, Air Corps Circular 15-15.
  • One copy, Air Corps Circular 65-23.
  • One copy, Air Corps Circular 85-3.
  • One Protractor.
  • One Standard Map of the United States on a scale of approximately 80 miles to the inch, except that aircraft operating outside of the continental limits of the United States will carry in lieu thereof a suitable map of the surrounding country over which aerial flights may be required.

There are also reproductions of many of the forms. However, I don't have the means to easily disassemble the manual and scan all of them at the moment.

A couple of interesting conclusions:
  • The overlap of numbers confirms that the AAF Forms were just the AC Forms renumbered.
  • The change AC to AAF forms is just one more illustration of the change from Air Corps to Army Air Forces.
  • The use of letter suffixes to indicate minor changes to a basic form mirrors the use of variant suffixes for aircraft. (e.g. Form No. 41 to Form No. 41A compared to P-51 to P-51A.) Note, however, that just like how some aircraft lacked an initial "no-letter" variant, both versions of Form No. 60 have suffix letters.
  • Certain sets of forms seem to be grouped together, potentially indicating they were developed around the same time. (e.g. Form No. 41-46, Form No. 49-51, Form No. 60-61, Form No. 81-82)
  • The large jump in numbering from Form No. 99 to Form No. 241, because similar gaps have been seen elsewhere, may indicate that the first "2" digit was simply appended to the beginning of the number and that there are no intervening forms. This would be similar to the way the Field Manual and Technical Manual designation sequences appear to have used a jump in the tens and hundreds place respectively to indicate a new set of subject matter.

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Just a quick one I came across recently: AAF Form No. 263A and 263C are versions of 263 (Aircraft Checkers Report), but for new aircraft only as of 1 September 1943 and 1 June 1945 respectively.[1]

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I was poking around online the other day and I come to find out that the CAF has a website named CAF Operations.org. It has a bunch of interesting materials on it, but something I thought was surprisingly relevant to this thread is that they apparently have their own series of forms that is not too much different from the World War II AAF forms. I guess even though technology has changed and sheets of paper have been replaced by online fillable forms, the need to track such information remains. Take a look at the following and see how many similar names and subjects you can find in the AAF series:
  • CAF Form 100m - Flight Log
  • CAF Form 101m - Aircraft Maintenance
  • CAF Form 105m - Airworthiness Directives
  • CAF Form 600 - Pilot Transition Letter Request
  • CAF Form 601 - Pilot Flight Experience
  • CAF Form 602 - Flight & Ground Training Forms

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The recent thread about individual flight record mission symbols reminded me that I had created a copy of AAF Form No. 5S in Excel (based on an example from a previous post), but I don't believe I ever posted it. So here it is:
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Two quick notes:

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Although it's postwar, the April 1960 issue of Flying Safety has an article about, and some samples of, AFTO Form 781.

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AAF Form No. 104B - Requisition and Shipping Ticket (Domestic)
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(Source: AirCorps Library)

Note that a copy of this form's companion, AAF Form No. 104A, can be found in a previous post in this thread.

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Similar to the CAF forms noted in a previous post, more evidence of the lasting impact this style of form had on American aviation can be found in a 1946 issue of Aviation magazine. Slick Airways created a similar form to track the maintenance of their C-46s:
Ruel McDaniel wrote:
Superintendent Wagenack has de-
vised an aircraft and engine log sheet
which not only has simplified pilot
reports but has aided in double-check-
ing on recommended adjustments or
necessary Work which is to be done on
the plane.

The log is printed in triplicate, with
the original, of course, remaining at
all times in the plane. One copy goes
to the main office and one to Wage-
nack.

Front of the log sheet contains
printed spaces for the pilot to report
all essential facts of his flight and to
note difficulties encountered from any
units during operation. Maintenance
copy goes immediately to the superin-
tendent, if the report is turned in at
San Antonio, and to the head mechanic
if at another point; and the remarks
noted by the pilot govern the work
to be done.

The mechanic then lists on the back
of the log all work performed to cor-
rect the troubles noted by the pilot.
Below the space for this listing there is
a special space for the mechanic to
list all recommended work which he
did not do, and to give his reasons why
he did not do it.

"This latter feature has done more
than anything we were ever able to do
before to prevent a mechanic’s slight-
ing minor work, especially at repair
shops outside headquarters," Wagenack
declares.

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Ruel McDaniel wrote:
Slick Airways aircraft and engine log developed by Maintenance Superintendent R. L. Wage-
nack has space for pilot "squawks" on one side, with reverse side listing all work done to
correct troubles. Additional space is given for mechanics "to list all work not corrected and
give reason why"-a feature which has greatly increased department's efficiency.

(Source: Aviation)

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In contrast to the previous post, this used plane record used by the Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation in 1930-31 is an example of how far back the use of these type of forms go in aviation:
Harvard Business Reports wrote:
In accordance with its policy of aiding its dealers, the Great
Lakes Aircraft Corporation wished to adopt some plan which
would lessen the dealer's burden, but which would not force
the company actually to enter the business of selling planes at
retail. As a solution of this problem, the sales manager decided
to establish at the factory a general clearing house of information
concerning used planes in the hands of Great Lakes dealers.
Such an exchange would materially lessen the chance of a dealer's
being unable to fill the specifications of a prospective purchaser,
since the dealer would have at his disposal the used plane stock
of all Great Lakes dealers. In the same way, it would be possible
for each dealer in the organization to come into contact with a
larger number of prospective purchasers.

Copies of the form shown in Exhibit I were sent to each dealer,
who filled out and returned to the factory two copies for each
plane accepted in trade.

Upon receipt of this form from a dealer, duplicates were made
and sent at once to all the company's dealers. In this way, all
dealers were kept constantly aware of the stocks of used planes
held by others throughout the United States. If a dealer was
unable to fill the requirements of a prospective purchaser of a
used plane, he referred to his file; if the record showed that another
Great Lakes dealer was able to fill the requirements, the first
dealer communicated with him.

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(Source: HathiTrust)

EDIT (22-04-22): The FAA News account on Flickr posted a similar in style invoice from the Ford Motor Company for a Ford Trimotor.

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