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| ADF Serials Message Board > Navy Aircraft - Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm > Romeo Serials? |
| Posted by: Martin Edwards Oct 10 2018, 02:57 PM |
| There are very few visual differences between the Seahawk Bravo and Romeo models yet they received different serial prefixes. The S70B carries N24-xxx and the MH60R carries N48-xxx Compare this with the Hercules that has had four very different model over 50 years yet retained the A97-xxx serial, the F-111 two distinct models both A8-xxx and the Chinook with three models all A15-xxx, There are many other examples of different aircraft with the same series serial. Below S-70B N24-010 and MH60R N48-002 |
| Posted by: Invader26 Oct 10 2018, 07:59 PM |
| Beaufighters had two different A numbers |
| Posted by: Martin Edwards Oct 11 2018, 02:02 PM |
| True that the Beaufighters had different serials for the imported and locally built examples. I think that was also to use up the vacant A8- prefix that was going to be used for the Bristol Blenheim. The other anomaly is that the A19 aircraft were delivered before the A8 aircraft! So I think that the Beaufighter was more the exception than the rule. Most of its WWII contemporaries kept a single prefix over sometimes many different models. |