Data Plates

[tom d. friedman]

excellent thread!! my data plates are all attached to instruments, but that would be an interesting 2nd thread!!

[Glyn]

I've never seen data plates on sale here in the UK. What would a typical price be for one?

[tom d. friedman]

depends on the rarity of the warbird. though, most are pretty pricey anyway.

[b747cf]

My name is Mark and this is my first post.
I to have a few data plates including these to ad to the list.
Boeing B-47
Bell P-39C
Boeing Stearman
Aerospatiale Puma
Casa Built HE-111 Bombload plaque
Curtiss Condor
B-45A part plate
Lockheed WV-2 (EC-121)
Grumman F9F-8T
Convair 240
Fairchild C-119G
Rockwell B1B parts plate
I also collect service awards from the aircraft manufactures.

[Glyn]

depends on the rarity of the warbird. though, most are pretty pricey anyway.

Quite right. I've just looked on Ebay and the few that are on offer are replicas - but still very expensive. This means I won't be able to buy any more which is a pity but I could try selling them there.

[Myles]

I had been given an L-5 fuselage years ago that had seen life as a Clevenger crop duster. The manufacturer's Model is L-5, s/n C-2. The aircraft were manufactured in Salinas, CA. This one 3-1-61. The turret data plate a friend gave me and the Waterseal data plate my late friend, Gus Vincent, that owned a PBY-5A gave me this data plate. We had converted the clipper nose on the aircraft to accept the turret nose. This might have been an extra data plate.
Jim Long
Santa Rosa, CA

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[retroaviation]

Welcome to WIX b747cf. That's a pretty impressive collection you have there.

Gary

[b747cf]

Thanks Gary I have been collecting for some time started while I went through A&P school in Miami.


Mark

[Dan K]

Gary, my old eyeballs can't make it out. If you tell me what's stamped as the "Dwg. or Part No." on that TBY-2 plate, I'll let you know what chunk of a Sea Wolf it used to be riveted to.

Deal or no deal?

[retroaviation]

Gary, my old eyeballs can't make it out. If you tell me what's stamped as the "Dwg. or Part No." on that TBY-2 plate, I'll let you know what chunk of a Sea Wolf it used to be riveted to.

Deal or no deal?

Deal.

The nomenclature on the plate is as follows:

Airplane Mod. TBY-2
Dwg. or Part No. 248001
Contract No. NO AS159
Serial No. H17-114P


Does that help?

Gary

[Dan K]

Gary, my old eyeballs can't make it out. If you tell me what's stamped as the "Dwg. or Part No." on that TBY-2 plate, I'll let you know what chunk of a Sea Wolf it used to be riveted to.

Deal or no deal?

Deal.

The nomenclature on the plate is as follows:

Airplane Mod. TBY-2
Dwg. or Part No. 248001
Contract No. NO AS159
Serial No. H17-114P


Does that help?

Gary

Funny things happen when you hunt for rare stuff like holy grails. Sometimes you find someone who's already got one.



TBY-2 Part No. 248001 is the windscreen assembly. The nature of the modification (and thus your plate) was an assembly line change from an earlier curved-glass windscreen to a flat-panelled version.

Ignoring the crappy photography, here's a view from when a newly-created instrument panel was being test-fit to the windscreen assembly (to which it attaches). A twin of your data plate can be seen mounted just to the left of the instrument panel (by the mag switch and hole for the panel clock).

[retroaviation]

That's pretty cool, Dan. Thanks for sharing that.

Gary

[Dan K]

That's pretty cool, Dan. Thanks for sharing that.

Gary

Any clues as to a location from where your TBY data plate originated? I'm only familiar with three surviving windscreen assemblies (, all originally scrounged by Jay Wisler from a warehouse in Illinois). It might give a clue as to where a certain TBY was written off/scrapped.

[retroaviation]

Unfortunately, I don't know the origin of by of the data plates I have, since I didn't even know I had them all this time, hiding in that box. I have been trying to remember who I got the box from, but as mentioned before, I've had the thing for 15 or 20 years and thought it just contained junk, so I never really paid all that much attention to it. Dumb move on my part.

Gary

[N3Njeff]

We have a few data plates ourselves. Not the best of the collection but 2 of my favorites are the two N3N data plates that are screwed to belt buckles.