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

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I've never seen data plates on sale here in the UK. What would a typical price be for one?
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depends on the rarity of the warbird. though, most are pretty pricey anyway.

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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.
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tom d. friedman wrote:
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.
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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.
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Welcome to WIX b747cf. That's a pretty impressive collection you have there.

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


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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? 8)

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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? 8)


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?

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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? 8)


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. :wink:

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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).

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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