Thanks everyone 🙂

Beaufighter VI – I will try Hendon again and see what happens. There certainly must have been ones issued (and to confuse it all some of the NAA archives switch between describing the DAP21 and BD43A, and the cockpit layouts are different too – both Australian though) Moorabbin certainly does not appear to have it as that’s where the Beaufort one is. Will try the Narellan museum again, but they were not sure where anything was when I last contacted them. Same with HARS…. and I did try and get plans etc under FOI but was told they were probably in deep storage somewhere and no-one knew 😡

aircraftclocks – thanks for the links. I have the panel layout files (in fact I have the large image of the layout on order) but the other one I had not seen. Thats a start and thats what counts.

I’ve always been led to believe the undercarriage legs were slightly different, just on the tops mainly ( nearly got caught out when collecting the legs as they were next to each other !)

There are also other obvious differences in relation to the engines etc – I recently acquired a number of cowl gills thinking they were the Beaufighter but when checking against a real aircraft it was clear they were Beaufort only. Same for the hand pump 🙂 Oh well, at least I have collected them regardless ..

In a perfect world it would be great to be able to have the parts lists side by side and do a comparison. Surely not all the parts books have been lost (they look so good with the leather strap and binding too) but I guess i have to be content with the knowledge at least that many parts were used on both aircraft

Oh I see 😀 type in a word that has naughty connotations and it gets asterisked out :rolleyes: I’m sure you know what part I am referring to anyway !

Pictures !

Thanks as always – I may have made a boo-boo here – should have read AH 388/2. Does that make a difference not having the letter O?

Only reason I ask is that looking at what pictures I could find on the web of the Dragon wheel, it appears to be dual brake drum whereas this wheel is single brake drum – if that makes sense (I’m still learning the terms etc)

Percival I am unsure of as I think we only had one over here and that crashed much further north…

So I should put up some pics eh ? Should have done that first :rolleyes:

But here you go – clickable thumbs so you can see all the numbers

Thats great, a good start, now all I have to do is try and figure out which aircraft it was from !

I did find under a lot of gunk that it is a type C Cupola but there is no date in the date section 🙁

Given my inexperience with these things I can only narrow it down to a few aircraft being maybe Anson or Hudson, but will keep hunting it down. Many thanks for your help !

:rolleyes: Should have looked at the parts list elsewhere on the forum – so its Anson, but what is the actual part I have here ?

Cheers

Ewan