By: Wellington285 - 10th January 2011 at 20:02
Can I say a big thankyou to you all for the info.
Went to the bank and asked for a loan for half a million, they told me to go away, so it wont be at Legends this year:D
Thanks again
Ian
By: K8B - 10th January 2011 at 19:16
This from Air-Britain’s Royal Navy Aircraft Serials and Units 1911 – 1919:
Fairey Hamble Baby tractor biplane seaplane, ordered 1.17 under contract no. A.S.4765/17 & built Hamble (130-hp Clerget 9B)
N1331 (F.140) delivered Lee-on-Solent week ending 1.11.17; Deleted week ending 29.11.17
By: low'n'slow - 10th January 2011 at 15:21
Just stumbled across this useful website / serials database here:
http://www.ukserials.com/
By: wieesso - 10th January 2011 at 12:11
N1331 (first series) – hard to find anything – mainly you can find something from
N1331 (second series) Avro Anson
By: paulmcmillan - 10th January 2011 at 10:39
If someone has the revelant Air Britain Naval Aircraft book, you may find a bit more history on this aircraft
Royal Navy Aircraft Serials and Units 1911 – 1919 (ISBN 0 85130 191 6) by Ray Sturtivant I.S.O. and Gordon Page
By: paulmcmillan - 10th January 2011 at 10:36
Bruce Robertson Military Serials 1911 to 1979
N1320 to N1339 Quantity 20. Fairey Hamble Baby. Fairey Aviation Construction numbers F.129 to F.148. 110 H.p. Clerget engines, for first 10, remainder 130 h.p. Clergets
So your is N1331 F.140…
You have a project with provenance! All you need now is the cash!
By: paulmcmillan - 10th January 2011 at 10:14
I think Fairey construction numbers were sequential.. So if anyone has any references numbers to start with you should be able to get a possible match
By: low'n'slow - 10th January 2011 at 10:03
It comes from a Fairey F129 ‘Hamble Baby’ floatplane, which was a modified Sopwith Baby design.
http://www.earlyaeroplanes.com/archive/image7/HambleBaby_MikeW.jpg
Can’t help with a serial, but if you let us have the dataplate and half a million pounds we’ll ‘rebuild’ it for you :diablo:
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