Hi all,
Many years ago a friend of mine bought the main remnants of what once was a Tiger Moth. He has now begun to rebuild it. The engine seems to be the best part of the deal and the fuselage has now been mainly rebuilt. The wings, however, are in a sad state and will probably have to be rebuilt using the old bits as patterns. Can anyone tell me what information one can gather from the serial numbers plaque, a picture of which is enclosed?
[ATTACH=CONFIG]221505[/ATTACH]
Kindest regards
Ken
By: kenjohan - 4th October 2013 at 18:42
Be very careful if you use old parts as a pattern for airworthy components. All the drawings for both top and bottom wings are available and there are several sources of new build ribs and spars. I can help you out with both if necessary.
Thank you Stan. Very kind of you. I have forwarded your offer to the owner of the aircraft.
Ken
By: Bruce - 4th October 2013 at 13:42
I read that serial no, as ‘Wing No 517’ not as belonging to Tiger Moth FV517. Unless all the other wings have the same number, I don’t think you can match a wing with a fuselage in that manner.
Bruce
By: Stan Smith - 3rd October 2013 at 23:06
Be very careful if you use old parts as a pattern for airworthy components. All the drawings for both top and bottom wings are available and there are several sources of new build ribs and spars. I can help you out with both if necessary.
By: The Blue Max - 3rd October 2013 at 22:57
The plate pictured is not the A/C serial plate but a component serial plate.
By: snafu - 3rd October 2013 at 21:34
Well, at least that’s more plausible than the English leaving their info in Swedish.
It just seems a little clumsy. Ok, many Swedes might well speak and/or read English, but if the aircraft was made in Sweden to serve in Sweden then surely it would have made sense for anything to do with the ‘planes mechanical’s and safety to be readable by the standard Swede?
I mean, when the Tucano was issued to the RAF I doubt that there was anything aboard that would show its Brazilian origins, whether or not they were important to the machines safety, since the number of lineys who read Portuguese is bound to be small.
If that is/was the case then I am utterly astounded. (Um, unless the Tiger Moth was built from a supplied kit of parts…)
By: The Blue Max - 3rd October 2013 at 19:52
That plate is basically giving you the mod state of the component it is attached to 🙂
By: kenjohan - 3rd October 2013 at 13:17
Thank you for the reply. I contacted the owner of SE-AMR, which now flies with new made wings as it was bought without them, and told him I had just seen his Moths’ original wings. We found out he had seen them too, at the present owners’ place, but as he didn’t check the serial number, he never knew the wings once belonged to his aircraft. It’s a small world! 🙂
Ken
By: ericmunk - 3rd October 2013 at 11:58
The Swedes would have left their info in English?
Well, at least that’s more plausible than the English leaving their info in Swedish.
By: snafu - 3rd October 2013 at 11:46
The Swedes would have left their info in English?
By: Newforest - 3rd October 2013 at 07:46
This information may be relevant. 🙂
FV517
19? The aircraft was built in Sweden.
19? The aircraft was re-registered as SE-AMR.
? The aircraft was acquired by Mats Rooth.
? The aircraft was painted up as FV 1-72
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