Can anyone help with this item. Its attached a rudder which believe is from a Mosquito as it has 98 prefix part numbers such as J988320 J986A
On the plate though there is a serial number of R2612.
Is this the aircraft serial number ? I couldn’t find a list of Mossie serial numbers
By: Trackmaster - 28th February 2017 at 04:22
That’s enough for a rebuild. Send it to NZ. 🙂
By: Bruce - 27th February 2017 at 08:50
In the factory they were identified by manufacturers number ie 98123. In some cases that can be tied into an RAF serial.
By: powerandpassion - 26th February 2017 at 12:46
Looks like they flew too high, under the bridge. ‘Serial R2162’ will refer to the rudder identification, rather than aircraft, as in ‘Rudder 2162’. However, if you found the logbook for a Mosquito aircraft and in it’s preamble it lists R2162 as the rudder fitted to it you could make a connection. Air Ministry Mosquito aircraft serials/identities, the magic that you want, are two alpha, three numeric, eg RR299. I have yet to find any evidence that an Air Ministry aircraft serial number was ever stamped onto a little plate stuck on a Mosquito. The AM serial was painted on, for sure. What was also there were lots of individual component dataplates like your rudder dataplate, for wings, fuselage, ailerons, undercarriage, nearly everything. Also lots of painted dataplates on fuel tanks, oil tanks, wing tips. Not an aircraft ID, though.
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February 26, 2017 at 11:29 am