Raf Aircraft Serials
Posted By admin On 21/06/18My goal for these pages is to identify every serial number ever assigned to a Canadian military aircraft, and to track the history of each aircraft in as much detail as I can. Since starting these pages I have been lucky enough to receive correspondence from serial number enthusiasts from around the world, and they have become a major source for the data presented here. I'm always in the process of adding this new information to and these web pages. Check out each time you visit, to see the progress. The links in the table below will take you to some purely arbitrary headings I have created. Acronis True Image Home V13 En Build 5055. These are intended to make the data more manageable, and don't necessarily reflect any official groupings or divisions of serial numbers. Each topic main page includes some brief historical notes, to help explain changes in the numbering systems over the years, and to help put the serial numbers in perspective.
Service of Boston/Havoc with Royal Air Force. RAF serials were AW392/AW414. Serials of Havoc aircraft known to have been equipped with the Turbinlite. ADF-SERIALS Australian & New Zealand Military Aircraft Serials & History. RAAF Series 2 1935 to 1960. The information in this section has been gleaned from the Air-Britain series of books on RAF Serials. Aircraft allocations in the XA-XZ range are correct up to.
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Awarded to quality information websites Topic Description updated 11 June 2008 Several early Canadian military organizations operated aircraft, or were planned to. This includes the Canadian Air Corps, the RFC/RAF schools in Canada, the Canadian Air Force in the UK, and the Royal Canadian Naval Air Service (RCNAS). Aircraft with uniquely Canadian serial numbers or registrations updated 17 December 2006 The Air Board years, 1919 to 1927. In this period, the newly formed Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) operated government owned, civil registered aircraft, on a mix of military and civil tasks. Some Air Board registered aircraft remained in use until the middle 1930s.
Pirates Stagnettis Revenge Unrated Rapidshare. Updated 5 February 2010 In 1928, the RCAF was relieved of most of its civil tasks, and began marking its aircraft with numerical serial numbers. This group extends from this date to the early part of World War II. Updated 5 May 2016 Serial numbers reached 1000 in the early days of WW II, when aircraft procurement exploded. 9999 was reached in just another 3 years. Some reserved blocks in this range were not completely allocated until the 1950s and 60s. Updated 8 June 2016 2016 When 10000 was reached, massive procurement continued in support of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and home defense.
The general series was continued after the war's end, and included the NATO period, some RCN aircraft, and the brief lived Canadian Army air arm. Updated 12 January 2008 After WW II, some wartime serial numbers were reused for new procurement. I have listed these separately to avoid confusion (especially my own). Updated 9 July 2016 After the RCAF was merged into the Canadian Armed Forces in February 1968, the in-service aircraft (ex Air Force, Army, and Navy) carried a mix of their previous serial number styles. To help sort out this mess, the existing aircraft were given new, 'unified' serial numbers over the next few years. This numbering scheme continues in use today for new procurement.
Note that the Canadian Forces have been allowed to start using the name 'RCAF' for some of its air components again. These are still part of the integrated Canadian Forces, so for these web pages I will continue to use 'Canadian Armed Forces' (CAF) or 'Canadian Forces' (CF) for current aircraft, and restrict use of 'RCAF' to prior to integration in 1968. I'm not trying to make any sort of a political statement with this, just trying to keep confusion to a minimum. Updated 8 April 2015 Both the RCAF and the Canadian Forces kept seperate registers for aircraft used as training aids at various schools,and with operational units.
Most, but not all, of these Instructional Airframes had a previous Canadian military serial number. This page identifies the previous identity (when one existed), and provide details on those airframes with no previous Canadian military serial.
Canadian owned or controlled aircraft with other serial numbers or registrations updated 21 June 2016 The Air Board, The Canadian Air Force, and the Royal Canadian Air Force all owned and operated aircraft with RFC and RAF serial numbers, from their earliest days up to the end of the Second World War. Some of these aircraft continued to carry RAF style serial numbers after the war was over, until they were retired or renumbered in the integrated Canadian Armed Forces. Those aircraft known to have been assigned to the RCNAS in 1918 are also included here. Financial Accounting 8th Edition Weygandt Solutions on this page. Updated 3 March 2013 Some American aircraft, received from the USAAF during and shortly after the War, and from the USAF during the Cold War, were operated by the RCAF with their original American serial numbers.