Thanks Gents, I still haven’t matched a known serial number to an airframe, but I did find something interesting in the Australian National Archives. There is a file designating(with Coordinates) a late war/post war dumping ground in an area of ocean south of Sydney. The file does not specifically mention Aircraft, but does list other war suplus materiels that were dumped(in tons), the materiel is predominantly explosives/munitions and chemical weapons. Given the official nature and exacting details of this file, I believe the lendlease(cant explain the Barracudas) FAA aircraft to have been disposed of in this area. I have yet to locate anything about the South east Queensland Dumping grounds, that have actually yielded a FAA Corsair. But feel confident that some records must exist.

Thanks Graham and Lee, I know from experience that the USAAF Individual Aircraft History Cards(IAHC), held on microfilm at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, state when an aircraft went to a foreign country and the port that it departed from. They do not record any history of the aircraft’s service in the foreign air service. I have only looked at cards of aircraft that were written off/Struck off charge/scrapped whilst with the foreign air service. I am aware of USAAF aircraft that were allocated to the RAAF, served with the RAAF and were returned to the USAAF before wars end, I’m not sure if the IAHC would reflect this return to US service.

Lee, do you think all the FAA aircraft serials sent too Australia in 1945 can be taken as having been struck off charge(dumped)?

Thanks again. A very interesting subject.