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Re: Royal Navy aircraft card terms and Abrev's

Posted by PeterA on Mon Sep 30, 2002 12:51:47 PM

In reply top Royal Navy aircraft card terms and Abrev's posted by Lee Walsh on Mon Sep 30, 2002 11:54:38 AM

Lee
1PATP is No 1 Packed Aircraft Transit Pool - Southport Lancashire, UK
FP is Ferry Pool. There were five of them.
Evanton SS. SS usually refers to Steam Ship ****
AHU A guess. Aircraft Handling Unit
RDU A guess. Resarch and Development Unit.
DELD A guess. Abbreviation for Delivered.
Peter

: Compiling the histories for each of the RCN Swordfish and
: Seafires that were dispatched to various units across Cana
: da after retirement c1946-'49. Looking into their RN histo
: ries I found the following terms I can't seem to crack. An
: y help at what these mean???
:
: DELD
: Evanton SS <>
: 1 PATP
: FP
: RDU
: AHU
: & these accident categories: LT and SS
:
: any clues, looked through every source I have and I am stu
: mped!
: Lee

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