Tay,Anon, Mr handsome Moggy C and everyone, thank you for your experience and comments.

My father was an aircraft engineer with de Havaland, so it would make sense that he might have received something to do with testing etc, they gave him a gold watch as well. He was a Sikh…brilliant engineer…

I will save your conclusions so I can have it rehearsed word perfect the next time someone asks me.

Shall I take it the mystery ends there? If so, I thank you for your assistance in shedding some light on this. If anyone does think of something else, my email is in my profile I believe. I will keep checking for a time.

Kind Regards to you all
Not entirely a fair lady but a dusky one Tay :)….Sikh and British mix xx

The hole should be for pressure equalizing on a hollow blade
but by Jove not drainage, Mylady! Think of it!
Drainage for what? Leaking lube or oil?
What engine will that prop be mounted on anyway?

Sorry for the gust, pray good night to you.

Good night all indeed, Tay.

Drainage for water, for when the plane hits the water Tay, and I climb out from the pilots side. 🙂

I Was just offering as much as possible to help solve the mystery…I know absolutely zero about these things Tay, as you can see ..but thank you

this is intriguing. I know little about propellers but would they normally have a hole in the end?? (would whistle well!) could this be consistent with John Aeroclubs thoughts that it has been truncated?

Roger Smith.

The miniscule hole is actually on top of the edge of the prop..if you get me
I wondered if it was where the blade was held at one end in manufacturing?? The hole is not all the way through, just 2 millimeters maybe

If you got a pencil and wanted to turn it fast, you might put a hole each end to hold it in place?

Thanks chaps…I appreciate your help.

Im trying to stick to the point but im having fun reading your responses and teases! you naughty boys.

By the way, very dashing photograph Moggy, if only I was older !
and it is quite big. I have a tiny hole Ive found on the very top part of the
propeller in the centre and the propeller is 28.5inches tall.

I hope this helps 😀

Hello Aviation People

Welcome Karen 🙂

A picture would be good. If you have problems posting one, let us know.

Moggy

Well Moggy, I’m 5ft 7, dusky and drop dead gorgeous…will get picture to you ASAP.

Sorry about all the threads I created. As you can see, I didn’t have control of the Piper Aircraft for long.

This is where the image is stored……..of the propeller 😀

Serial numbers are not that clear but this is what I can see…

serial number is C14271 NA DRG NO DR51********1 Stars are unreadable machine that stamped them didn’t impress them enough and the NA could also be a VA

I live in England and the company was in England.

As you can see in image, its made of metal.

My reason for asking is I have it in my house and every time someone sees it they always ask which aircraft does it belong to ?

My Kind Regards to you all… Karen