Warbird Information Exchange

This turned out to be harder than I thought. Anyone have any suggestions as to which Navy plane(s) may have used this Mark I-A airspeed. all the aircraft I have checked have a speed performance range that is faster or MUCH slower than the 200mph max on this one. The brass tag on the rear states Order NO. 56756, and more importatnlySerial No.363-38, I am assuming that the "-38" is for 1938.
As you can see, the age is 0-200mph or 20-430 knots. Bu. Aero U.S. Navy; U.S. Gauge Co. NY; AD-53??-F (looks like, possibly, AD-5363-F)
Seems a little high for a Stearman, but leaning toward that, as closest I could find

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The airspeed is 0-200 on the outer ring and continues 200-430 on the inner ring.

This isn't for a Stearman. Well I guess the 0-100 part could be.

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Thanks Mike; I missed that!. Was just assuming the outer numbers were the MPH speed, and the inner numbers were the knots speed, after a fast glance... (I don't see the embarrassed smiley here...)Back to the lists of Navy performance specs, again....

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Barnstormer, you'll find that airspeed indicator mounted to WWII-era Naval fighters, like the Hellcat and Corsair. Quite common in fact, in those aircraf types. ; )

Much appreciated, John;
Attempting to keep going on impossible task of sorting tens of thousands of aero "stuff" items collected over past 42 years. Have parts, photos, documents records, photos from pre- Wright Bros to Lunar Module parts. But I focused on mainly on 1903-1939, so this WWII info is a great help, as I have learned a great deal on this website. Got rid of all the rare planes, 175 mostly pre-WWII aero engines, 395,000 WWI German parts, most instruments, off to museums etc. Now for the hundreds of boxes & crates, museum aero art, historic aviation documents, aero Company records, autograph collections, 150,000 photos & negs and, and, and...
* I like your avatar, one of the boxes contained a whole bunch of unique and heavy steel dies, like this one.

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