Hi guys,
a quest for information I’m afraid. My Grandma has an old propellor hub that has been turned into a mounting for a barometer, and has asked if I can find anything out about the aircraft it came from.
The back reads:
Y503
110hp
Le Rhone
Type 504K
G804N9
Dia 2744
Pitch 2655
Now, obviously it is from an Avro 504K with the 110hp Le Rhone engine, but beyond that I can’t find anything.
Y503 is the drawing number for the propellor design (Y indicates it is an A.V.Roe design.)
I thought G804N9 might be the serial number, but I can’t find any serial numbers that look like that. In RAF service during WW1, ‘G’ numbers were used for captured German aircraft.
Anybody have any ideas?
By: masonel - 21st April 2010 at 15:09
Hey pogno,
It turns out G804N9 is the propeller’s number
G804 is the batch number
N9 is means it is the 9th prop in the batch.
It was produced sometime in late 1918
By: pogno - 20th April 2010 at 13:58
Masonel
I doubt that you will find hardly any propellers marked with the registration of the aircraft that it came from. Propellers were swopped and changed between aircraft, most likely as the result of minor damage caused by stones or wind/rain errosion. The damaged prop would have gone off to the propeller workshop where it would have been repaired and placed in store until needed again.
The only time I can think off where one would be marked would be one salvaged following an accident and kept as a souvenir of the event. None of the marks on yours look like registrations.
Richard
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April 20, 2010 at 12:50 pm