Which a/c was this seat used in ?

Your seat

Martin, this might come as a bit of a shock but it looks exactly like the seats used on Catalinas. as I’ve only seen one Cat in my life I would remember it, and I spent quiet a bit of time in its cockpit (Day dreaming of what it would have been like during WWII)

The Number is consistant with US made stock that was destined for other users e.g. RAF, RAAF

Hope this helps you out a little.

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I’ll ask around and see what comes up.

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Hi Martin, the advice on the part no. might have been good if the seat was aircraft specific. By the look of the numbers it was not. Prior to the intoduction of NATO Stock No.s in the 1970’s All RAF aircraft had what was known as Sect/Ref numbers which consisted of an alpha numeric code i.e 26DD/ and a number. The code uniquely identified the aircraft, and the number identified the part. However such items as engines, props, fuel tanks, radios, instruments, seats, harnesses, guns etc which were not aircraft specific were given section/refs in a different series. Your seat most probably falls into this category and could have been fitted to any one of a number of aircraft types. I think it will be very difficult to pin it down to a specific aircraft.

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>Do you have any part numbers? Should be easy if you have
>them.

Hi,

Thanks for the comments so far.

The seat has a plate attached with the following…at least as far as I can make out under the paint…

Type 6S 985
S/N 64844 SHT 3 ESB

Plus some mod record stamps.

One of the straps has the pt number 6F 296.

I’m really interested to find out what type of a/c it might have been fitted to, so if anyone can help I’ll be very pleased to hear from you.

Thanks again,

Martin
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Do you have any part numbers? Should be easy if you have them.

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my guess would be mitchell or dakota

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