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Helicopterfriend



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 29, 2016 10:30 pm    Post subject: Older Model USAF Aircraft Numbers Reply with quote
It would appear that Joe Baugher's site for Military Aircraft can only be used to identify planes (maybe). The 1946 - 1948 aircraft before 1000 series read as 46-XXX or 47-XXX, or 48-XXX. However people seem to think that an extra zero has to be added for some reason and that the proper numbers had to be removed. I had added the proper Joe Baugher aircraft numbers and they have been removed and the aircraft pictures have been moved back to the unrecorded numbers.

example:
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/48-0010.html
48-001/010 North American B-45C Tornado

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/47-0221.html
47-171/224 Lockheed P-80C-1-LO Shooting Star

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/46-0062.html
46-62/64 Bell XS-1

   
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Doug Robertson



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 2:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Walt,

Unfortunately. I have found the same thing about the Joe Baugher site. To-wit, the web link referral on the site for further help: re a current serialized military (USAF) Helicopter (on an airport ramp) photo of mine was a non-responder, my experience.

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Ztex



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Joe Bauer's site is correct...
His explanation is stated in the preface to his serial number lists.

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In 1947, at about the same time that the USAF was officially formed, DoD regulation 5304.9003 was promulgated which required that the sequence number now have at least 3 digits. This means that fiscal year serials with individual sequence numbers less than 100 are filled up with zeroes to bring them up to 3 digits in length. So 48-1 is written as 48-001 in official documentation. Sequence numbers greater than 9999 are written with 5 digits. In 1958, the minimum number of digits in the sequence number was raised to four, so that the 1958 aircraft series started at 58-0001
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What the managers of this site choose to do with the numbers is an entirely different thing.
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