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Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:39 am

Here is a NAA data plate sampler.

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Credit WL.

Patrick
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Fri May 15, 2009 11:49 am

I'd hate to let this great thread fade away, so heres my little contribution. For scale, the small oval Avro plates are 2 inches wide.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:26 am

Just found these and thought I give this thread some new life.
these are 3 of the 4 dataplates used on Fouga's. Finnish, German and French (Potez also had another style later on)
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And a special one for someone we all loved:
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:02 am

wonderfull! I Haven't got any data plate but I like looking on yours :D

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Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:52 am

Folks,
I have all of Gary's old data plates. I've been selling them for him and am proud to say I was able to sent him quite a bit of money. This past week he emailed me telling me to stop and to keep the rest of them has a thank you. If someone would like to purchase any of the reminder drop me a email. I'll dontate the $$ to the humane society or young eagles in his memory. A few of them I plan on sending to a couple folks who really are hurting over his loss but the others are up for grabs.

B-52

Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:14 pm

the only ones I have are NEW blank ones for boeing airctaft all were destined fro B-52's but since they are new blanks I guess you could get creative!! :lol:

Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:47 pm

I've only got one so far, but it's a start. It's off an R-1340.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:32 pm

I've rec'v a number of PMs inquiring about Gary's data plates which I now have.
I've answered all but sadly most are still sitting in my PM outbox and going no where.
Please email me (Lookdown where it says email :wink: ) and I'll answer all questions about them.

Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:14 pm

Here's my collection. Pretty much like Hawkeye's really. The used Orenda plate is off an Orenda 10 and I'm guessing the Victory Aircraft one came off a Lanc.
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This is one I'm looking for. If you find one like this (this is the one on CHAA's Yale) that has the serial number 64-3033 instead of 64-2160, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
It was stolen out of my plane in the seventies. (along with the instrument panel and a few other things)
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:partyman:

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Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:29 pm

Here's a list
P-38L-5
F4U-4 VF-192
SBD-5
SB2C-5 VB-86
SB2C-1
SB2C-3
C-46A (409) USMC SWP WWII
PV1
Lockheed 18
US Navy Model GB-2 (owned by funny car racer Jim Head)
Culver PQ-14A
TBY-2
UC45F
C-45 F
B-24D (PB4Y-1, 32119, "Over Exposed") VD-2 SWP
TBF 1
F6F-3
F6F-5
TBM-1C
TBM-1
TBM-3E
FM2

Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:22 am

Thats funny that we have basically the same plates. although I'm still seraching for the 3rd Orenda plate to round out my collection.

Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:23 am

Just found another one. It's from an RF-84F canopy
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Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:32 am

Fouga23 wrote:Just found these and thought I give this thread some new life.
And a special one for someone we all loved:
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I don't think a lot of us caught this one. Very cool Fouga. Thanks.

Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:17 pm

mtpopejoy wrote:I don't think a lot of us caught this one. Very cool Fouga. Thanks.

Thanks. I'm thinking about putting that on my Fouga cockpit when I'm done with the restoration. I almost left the aviation scene due to too many *ssholes and ego's ruining it for me. Thanks to guys like Gary I didn't quit completely and kept my collection. Seeing gary's posts with the stratolina, F-105/101,... trying to save every aircraft bit he came across... Reminded me why I started with aviation.

Re: Data Plates

Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:11 pm

I'm new here, and don't own any data plates yet, but I took a picture of one a few days before I joined here.
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This is from B-52G 59-2584 and it's not so easy to read, as you can tell. 584 is located at Paine field in Everett, WA., and owned by the Museum of Flight restoration center. I guess most of the B-52 data plates look like this because of the efforts to keep the planes half-way presentable. The scraped off areas were done by the volunteers at the restoration center. I'm pretty sure I would not have approached the problem in that manner.
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