Arabella-Cox
July 11, 2017 at 12:34 pm

A strut yes, but from what aircarft?

I’ve just returned from a week in Orkney and Shetland and whilst visiting a Fossil museum I noticed a small display of aircraft parts (three tail wheels and a piece of strut) collected from one of the airfields on the islands.
The aluminium strut had a brass plate soldered? on to it with a part and drawing number.
I’ve looked on the aircraft part number list thread and can’t find a match so its over to the hive mind for an identification, here are the markings.

S2/S4127
22325/25
ISSUE NO 2

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By: Philip Morten - 11th July 2017 at 19:28

I would suggest a SARO-built ( from the S2 marking) tailplane strut from a Walrus.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 11th July 2017 at 18:52

I believe 22325 is a Seagull V/Walrus tailplane bracing strut

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By: Arabella-Cox - 11th July 2017 at 18:46

[ATTACH=CONFIG]254657[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]254658[/ATTACH]
Here are the photos but it looks like I could have just shown them to Rocketeer when he walked into my office today.

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By: Rocketeer - 11th July 2017 at 18:17

Supermarine renowned for reusing parts on other aircraft. At least one 223 part used to spits

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By: David Burke - 11th July 2017 at 17:58

I was thinking about the Sea Otter wrecked at Colonsay

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By: Rocketeer - 11th July 2017 at 17:51

223 is a supermarine product. Seagull V

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By: Whitley_Project - 11th July 2017 at 15:07

Any chance of a pic Aeronut? It often helps narrow down the search to see the style of writing on a plate etc.