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Re: New US museum with Blenheim and "FW-190" on display!
Posted by Jeff on Mon Jan 14, 2002 10:35:35 PM
In reply top Re: New US museum with Blenheim and "FW-190" on display! posted by Paul McMillan on Tue Jan 08, 2002 05:43:28 AM
Not sure if this'll help but it's from a 1990 edition of beaufort,beaufighter and mosquito in australian service by Stewart Wilson.
There apear to have been 688 beauforts made by DAP.
Of the A9-1?2 possibilities their fates listed here are:
-102 sold to scrapper.
-112 no real details
-122 Converted to components '46
-132 " " " '45
-142 Crashed 11/43 conv. to comp.
-152 crash10/43 conv. nose extant Moorabin Museum. victoria.
-162 no real details.
-172 " " "
-182 crashed tadji 6/45 conv.to comp.
-192 conv. to comp. '46
: Spookly The following was just posted on the Air Britain f
: orum
:
: Subject: Licence built Bristol c/ns
:
: Does anyone have any info on construction numbers (paper o
: r
: otherwise) for
: a) Canadian built Fairchild Bolingbrokes, or
: b) Australian built DAP Beauforts and Beaufighters.
:
: Some publications have c/ns for certain Bolys e.g. 11-880-
: 203 =
: RCAF9073, 11-880-107 = RCAF9104, 11-880-264 = RCAF9947, 11
: -880-202 =
: RCAF9983. I recently inspected two Bolys in the MARC compo
: und at
: Chino, reportedly RCAF 10073 and 10076. These both had pla
: tes
: with "Serial Number 49302-456" and "Serial Number 49306-63
: ", both
: plates also had "DRG No. 9302--E" and "DRG No. 9306--E". T
: he former
: was an intact Boly, supposedly due for the General Patton
: Air Museum
: in California, the latter was in sections, and is supposed
: ly for the
: Bristol Heritage Collection at Nashville. The only part wi
: th an RCAF
: serial was a wing section with 10073 on it, so 10076 must
: be the
: complete one.
:
:
: The compound also contained several DAP Beaufort bits, inc
: luding two
: tail sections. Only one plate was in a readable position,
: it
: had "Serial No. SF182" and "DRG No. 81960". The ADF Serial
: looked
: like A9-1?2, where the ? could have been an 8. The other t
: ail section
: was from A9-574.
:
:
: Can anyone help with what these mean, and what is the "DRG
: No."?