September 4, 2014 at 5:04 pm
A friend requested assistance for identifying this part (which was found in an attic somewhere in Brittany).
We would incline for an aileron or a flap from an airspeed Oxford,
do you agree ?
Thanks for your advice
GC
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th September 2014 at 08:58
SER/AS = ???/Airspeed.
SER would have been a a sub-contractor to Airspeed but I’d need to look through my Horsa production notes to see if any match that code. Often it’s a sub-contractor to a sub-contractor.
DTD 83A is the paint specification.
EDIT – Yup, it’s a Horsa port or starboard elevator. Engineering sheet for 1945 lists tail unit components assembled with Caesin glue that need to replaced with Synthetic Resin glue. It gives a list of elevators in the range “SER/AS 161 – 170” so all things being equal – that’s what it is.
Can I have it? 😀
By: gillescollaveri - 5th September 2014 at 07:56
Thes size is 125cm x32cm and we agree that it is most probably a Horsa trim tab.
Thanks for your answers, guys;
GC
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th September 2014 at 06:24
Maybe not an aileron but could it be a Horsa or Hamilcar aileron / elevator trim tab?
By: John Aeroclub - 4th September 2014 at 23:22
I initially thought Horsa aileron but what is the scale of the floor tiles? The part looks to be only 4 feet long.
John