BPF FAA Hellcat Mk.I Serials/Registration Numbers/Codes

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Fascinating thread chaps. Of the 1839 Sqn hellcats, is it known which was flown by Henry Adlam during Meridian?

[Grey Beema]

17 hours ago, iang said:

 

Nope. The reason you are not getting very far is because there is very little extant primary data, so the secondary sources have little to work with.  Overall, Indefatigable was the worst carrier for recording aircraft identities and a great many Seafires were written off in deck-landing accidents. I'm working through the Admiralty documents that have survived, pilots' log books and photographs and have made only limited progress. I have a lot of gaps in both the Seafire and Avenger lists. Only the Fireflies are pretty complete - at least until 1772 replaced 1770. 

 

Hi Ian,

 

I think I might have figured out some.  I have been trying to cross reference  FAA Aircraft 39-45 with some other odds and sods.  I have what I've got so far in a spreadsheet your welcome to a copy if you want it, it might save a bit of typing..

 

 

[iang]

On 6/3/2017 at 13:11, Grey Beema said:

 

Hi Ian,

 

I think I might have figured out some.  I have been trying to cross reference  FAA Aircraft 39-45 with some other odds and sods.  I have what I've got so far in a spreadsheet your welcome to a copy if you want it, it might save a bit of typing..

 

 

 

Many thanks for the offer. It's much appreciated, but I'm trying to construct these lists entirely from primary sources. It may be that some secondary sources have had access to primary material that I've not seen, so in the end I might supplement them with information drawn from secondary sources (in which case I'll gratefully take you up on your offer), but for the time being I'm going to stick exclusively to Admiralty documents, flying log books and photographs. 

 

Cheers

 

IG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Seahawk]

1 hour ago, iang said:

 

... I'm trying to construct these lists entirely from primary sources. .... but for the time being I'm going to stick exclusively to Admiralty documents, flying log books and photographs.

 

I appreciate the intellectual rigour you are bringing to your task - and look forward to your making the results available to the wider world in due course.

[JWM]

On 30.05.2017 at 1:08 AM, Gomtuu said:

 

Not quite the same aircraft, just 1 serial number out. Representative?

Very nice overpaintings etc.! BTW - here C7 and expecially R looks like outlined. The basic colour of character is darkered than white. Yellow? (like in Meditarraean theater?) or rather sky? Outline, if exists - red? Dk Blue? By the way - I think that on colour photos al lettering looks just flat white. The prop is blue since the knife hand is black . So if black is black, prop is not black!

 

On 30.05.2017 at 2:20 AM, Troy Smith said:

FAA  Grumman Hellcat. by Etienne du Plessis, on Flickr

 

good for wear, fading and staining, note the light paint on plane in rear where roundel has been repainted, and again scuffed back to primer on wing

Hellcat. by Etienne du Plessis, on Flickr

 

assume this is R5F, but no serial listed

 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 02:26 AM by Troy Smith

Cheers

J-W

[Grey Beema]

3 hours ago, iang said:

 

Many thanks for the offer. It's much appreciated, but I'm trying to construct these lists entirely from primary sources. It may be that some secondary sources have had access to primary material that I've not seen, so in the end I might supplement them with information drawn from secondary sources (in which case I'll gratefully take you up on your offer), but for the time being I'm going to stick exclusively to Admiralty documents, flying log books and photographs. 

 

Cheers

 

IG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No worries.  You are going the right way, I have limited references.  Just gimme a shout if you want it..

 

BTW I know SLt Joseph Browne's Grandson so if you ID his Aircraft ID please let me know..

Edited June 4, 2017 by Grey Beema

[Nick Nichols]