Serial numbers of a particular Warbird

Hellcat · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:24 pm

Example: P-51's ..... Is there a list of every P-51 ever produced and date and location of either it's existance today or of it's destruction? Not talking about the registry, because the registry does not have a list of all serial numbers of every Mustang built. Is there such a list? It would be very interesting to know just exactly how many P-40B's were built and where they all went and what happened to them, then you could mathmatically equate:

1. How many produced
2. How many lost
3. Where they all were sent
4. How many could be left
5. Possibly how many could be recovered
6. Possibly where they could be recovered

I'm into statistics, what can I say?

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11336

Hellcat wrote:

Is there a list of every P-51 ever produced and date and location of either it's existance today or of it's destruction? Not talking about the registry, because the registry does not have a list of all serial numbers of every Mustang built. Is there such a list?

About the closest I've found is Joe Baugher's site:

http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/

Most of the other databases I've found are those of known survivors like the Warbirds Directory or Mustangs Mustangs.

Hellcat · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:49 pm

WOW!!!! .... now that's cool, that's what I'm talking about, not everything there, but a lot of good stuff, ..... see, I knew I was asking some good questions .... I think ... lololol

daveymac82c · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:06 pm

Hey, that is a good reference website! Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Cheers,

David

Old SAR pilot · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:10 pm

..And if you run across one, or two, or a few, that Joe doesn't have, he's glad to add 'em! :wink:

Hal B · **Posted:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:23 pm

And if Baugher isn't enough, there's always "Swiss Mustangs". I think he has the goods on just about every Mustang built...

Swiss Mustangs · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:27 am

Hal B wrote:

And if Baugher isn't enough, there's always "Swiss Mustangs". I think he has the goods on just about every Mustang built...

trying hard......

thanks for the flowers.....

my database has grown over the last 20 years..... so I might just have that odd bit of information.... :wink:

Martin

JDK · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:43 am

Hellcat wrote:

...then you could mathmatically equate:

1. How many produced
2. How many lost
3. Where they all were sent
4. How many could be left
5. Possibly how many could be recovered
6. Possibly where they could be recovered

I'm into statistics, what can I say?

That would be the long way to come up with data where the error factor would vastly exceed any useful 'pinpoints'. (Fits in with the 'statistics' next to 'lies' and 'd@mn lies'...) There's plenty of useful data crunching to be done in the warbird business, just have a chat with the folks here.

As to 'lost' or 'gap' aircraft, there's a lot to be done there too, but usually on a location / battle / combat report basis, rather than 'went out din't come back'...

Hellcat · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:41 pm

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That would be the long way to come up with data where the error factor would vastly exceed any useful 'pinpoints'. (Fits in with the 'statistics' next to 'lies' and 'd@mn lies'...) There's plenty of useful data crunching to be done in the warbird business, just have a chat with the folks here.

As to 'lost' or 'gap' aircraft, there's a lot to be done there too, but usually on a location / battle / combat report basis, rather than 'went out din't come back'...

Not sure what you mean by a few comments, ... lies and d@mn lies? ...

tulsaboy · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:50 pm

While it doesn't have every B-24 in the database, I might suggest ponying up the 5 bucks at www.b24bestweb.com to get access to the full database in spreadsheet form. It has a good chunk of the B-24s listed, and the site has thousands of B-24 pics culled from personal collections, government archives, etc. It's one of the biggest efforts I've seen on the web to pool resources to track WWII combat aircraft. There are a good bunch of folks who've contributed thousands of hours of research to the project.

I also second everyone's reccomendations of Joe Baugher's website. It's a pretty incredible resource.

kevin

Hellcat · **Posted:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:17 pm

5 ponies well worth it, see ... I had no idea these sites were out there. Good stuff indeed. May not be everything, but more good research than I have ever seen.

Old SAR pilot · **Posted:** Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:55 am

Another database I ran across recently is P-47 specific. Pretty nice, although all in French (time to dig out that old dictionary) :wink:

:

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/p-47.database/

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