Bay Service Abbreviations

Nicosia operated Valletas at one point

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Nicosia

may also have been a maint base covering others in the region.

VX158 Short Sperrin proto 😮
WD158 Vickers Valetta C1 😉
WG158/ WN 158 Balliol T2

or maybe completely wrong of course, if only it could talk

prefixes on serials run by date, you need to look through these by prefix and see when they were running and what had the number………

http://www.ukserials.com/

thanks Tony T. I can see a chink of light now …

T/F NIL……………..freshly overhauled ( or new -date of manufacture was 1955)
A/C 158……………fitted to “158” – why was it simply 158 and not ??158
A/F 848.45………..at airframe hours
DATE 6.6.56………in June 1956

So I am looking for an aircraft big enough to take a D.R. compass known as 158 which was possibly built in about 1955 and had done 848 hours by June 1956 🙂

may be total flown for the item

BS/ NIC/10/59 BS could be Bay Serviced/ Nicosia / date month and year

Having T/F nil means it has been overhauled, so no usage since overhaul, the other means it has been repaired, so still has sufficent hours remaining before overhaul to put back into service, say it had an overhaul life of 500 hrs you would then know it had 279.40 remaining before overhaul.

this is the equivalant used today and contains the same sought of information

http://www.jap100a-01.mod.uk/Jap(d)/PDFForms/301A.pdf

Hmm, pretty sure that A/F and T/F are in hours.

Another example
BS/ NIC/10/59 Nicosia fits with the date and the Canberra B2 serial
AF 1669.31 hrs
TF 219.20 hrs
AC WJ618

T/F NIL
A/C 158
A/F 848.45
DATE 6.6.56

T/F faults???
A/C is probably the aircraft serial No?
A/F will be the airframe hours?
Date is erm the date