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Eureka181
 Post subject: Interesting Data Plates
PostPosted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:27 pm 
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I was going through some various warbird parts when I came across two interesting data plates. The first one is a plate off a SNJ-6 and the other is a plate off a C-46. Can anyone tell me history on SNJ-6 BuNo 112161? And the C-46 plate is a mystery to me. It says the Ser No is 62-3366, but I don't think any C-46-A-35-CU had that serial number.

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Cool data plates! The C-46 plate is not the airframe data plate, but the data plate from a part of one. Note that there is a drawing number referenced to the part. Thanks for sharing!

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I'm glad you thought the plates were "cool".

All C-46 part numbers start with 20. If I had a C-46 parts manual with me, I could tell you what that plate is off of. Maybe somebody has one and can tell me.

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Hello Eric,

The plate to the left of the Pensacola plate is the original phenolic NA Data Plate which would have the NA serial number written on it in ink.

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Glenn Wegman wrote:
Hello Eric,

The plate to the left of the Pensacola plate is the original phenolic NA Data Plate which would have the NA serial number written on it in ink.

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Thanks for the info! When you say written on in ink, do mean with a pen?

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Yes,

It had white blocks silk screened on it and the serial number was hand written with ink.

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Todd Hackbarth
 Post subject: SNJ-6 BuNo 112161
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The Warbirds Directory 4th Edition CD gives the following info for BuNo 112161:

c/n 121-42994 AT-6F 44-82272 (to USN as SNJ-6 BuNo 112161)
N2862G George M. Knight, Los Angeles CA 63/64
Jack M. Cupp, Saugus CA 66/70
Roland T. Golan, Los Angeles CA 72/77
NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 90/93
NMNA, NAS Whiting Field FL 93/01

Joe Baugher's site, http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/navyserials.html, lists BuNo 112161 as SNJ-6 c/n 121-43124, ex-USAAF 44-82402.

I do not know which source is correct.
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Eureka181
 Post subject: Re: SNJ-6 BuNo 112161
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Todd Hackbarth wrote:
The Warbirds Directory 4th Edition CD gives the following info for BuNo 112161:

c/n 121-42994 AT-6F 44-82272 (to USN as SNJ-6 BuNo 112161)
N2862G George M. Knight, Los Angeles CA 63/64
Jack M. Cupp, Saugus CA 66/70
Roland T. Golan, Los Angeles CA 72/77
NMNA, NAS Pensacola FL 90/93
NMNA, NAS Whiting Field FL 93/01

Joe Baugher's site, http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/navyserials.html, lists BuNo 112161 as SNJ-6 c/n 121-43124, ex-USAAF 44-82402.

I do not know which source is correct.


It's kind of odd that the history of this airplane is mixed up or something.

I wonder when my data plate was taken out of the airplane.

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Glenn Wegman wrote:
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It had white blocks silk screened on it and the serial number was hand written with ink.

Glenn

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These white blocks, do you think they would still be under the paint? If so, do you think the hand written ink would still be legible after all these years?

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Eureka181 wrote:
I'm glad you thought the plates were "cool".

All C-46 part numbers start with 20. If I had a C-46 parts manual with me, I could tell you what that plate is off of. Maybe somebody has one and can tell me.

Eric


The part number on the data plate reads:

20-710-101
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skymstr02 wrote:
Eureka181 wrote:
I'm glad you thought the plates were "cool".

All C-46 part numbers start with 20. If I had a C-46 parts manual with me, I could tell you what that plate is off of. Maybe somebody has one and can tell me.

Eric


The part number on the data plate reads:

20-710-101


I could read the part number, I just did not have a parts manual to identify what part it was off of. Tomorrow I am going to a place with a C-46 parts manual, so I can look it up.

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