October 2012 Updates

Updated Mustang Page
Added new image albums and links for
A68-7, -35. -72, -87, -121, -122, -141, -158, -164, -546, -679, -721, -766 and -792.

Added photos to existing albums of
A68-1, -5, -30, -67, -104, -123, -162, -193, -194, -199 and -679

Photos from AWM, Langdon Badger, Len Brighton, Luke Bryant, Neil Follett, Keith Gaff, Geoff Goodall, Ken Hodge, Lindsay Horner, National Archives of Australia, RAAF

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a68.shtml

http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Mustang/

Nice work Martin, and quite a few photos that I hadn't seen before too!

My quick update for today is the A5 Vickers Vimy

I have brought the page up to our current format (compare with the old Vimy Page ) and also updated the text and photo links.

While I was updating the link to our RAAF Series One page I felt an overwhelming urge to drop the dear old Wapiti (which I will bring up to the new format soon) from the series one page and just leave it linked from the RAAF Series Two page.

Given that the Vimy was allocated the A5 cypher in 1921 and the Wapiti was re-alloacted the A5 cypher in 1929, I think that this constitues the real start of Series Two (i.e. the second use of a serial range). Having two A5's in series one and the Wapiti repeated between the series has always looked untidy to my mind!

I know that the Wapiti has been recorded in both series for several generations - so I am rocking the historical boat a bit here.

Anyway, I thought I'd throw this thought out for your learned consideration before I succombed to my radical thoughts and edited the poor old Wapiti from Series one!

Over to you folks!

BC

And onother RAAF Series one page brought up to our current format today.

This time it's the Bristol Bulldog.


BC

The series two aircraft spanned the years 1935 to 1960
As the Wapiti entered service in 1929 IMHO I think it should remain where it is as a series one aircraft. The Vimy never wore it's A5 in service

There are other instances of aircraft being in both series, the A7 Moth and A12 Bulldog and later on the A13 Link Trainer

Confusingly the DH.50 appeared as first series A8 and second series A10

To be pedantic the second series A3 was first allocated to the Dragon Rapide and then after the two Rapides were disposed it was allocated to the Wackett Trainer
(The Dragon Rapides re-appeared as A33, the former A3-1 becoming A33-3)
Maybe we should make a further note of this because I have seen a photo somewhere of a Rapide identified as a Wackett

Thanks Martin,

It is an interesting subject with a few built in conunderums!

While we have a think about it, here is the first pass of the updated Wapiti page.

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/1a5.htm

Only four more pages to go to bring all of Series One pages up to our current format!

Also I'm working on a whole batch of major pages updates courtesy of the Phantom!

Cheers

BC

And now we have all of our RAAF Series One Aicraft pages updated to our current format with their image links in place and some new material added on each page too. The pages updated today are:

A8 - De Havilland D.H.50A http://www.adf-serials.com.au/1a8.htm

A9 - Supermarine Seagull III http://www.adf-serials.com.au/1a9.htm

A10 - Fairey IIID http://www.adf-serials.com.au/1a10.htm

A10 - De Havilland D.H.50A http://www.adf-serials.com.au/1a8.htm

A11 - Supermarine Southampton I http://www.adf-serials.com.au/1a11.htm

I have also added an entry on the RAAF Series one index page to acknowledge that A11 was originally allocated to the Felixstowe F5 in 1921.

RAAF Series One http://www.adf-serials.com.au/raaf1.htm

RAAF Series One http://www.adf-serials.com.au/raaf2.htm

If you have any info to add to these pages, please let me know.

Cheers

BC

Image links added today for two AFC types:

Handley Page 0/400 http://www.adf-serials.com.au/afc11.htm

Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter http://www.adf-serials.com.au/afc7.htm

and

The AFC index page http://www.adf-serials.com.au/afc.htm

I have still got a task on on my list to complete the AFC pages by producing a page for the Armstrong Whitworth F.K.3 and B.E.12 & B.E.12a.

That is unless some one would like to volunteer! :rolleyes:

One day!

Cheers

Brendan

Nice work Brendan.
I have changed all the above mentioned image gallery page links to your new pages.

A11 "Felixstowe F5" now that's showing off! :lol:

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An update on recent additions to the image gallery

Added Bandeirante image gallery
Thanks to Steve Bottom for permission to use his photos

Added DH.6 Twin Otter image gallery
Thanks to Steve Bottom, Daniel Umana, Michael Stappen and Simon Wilson for permission to use their photos

MustangAdded new image albums for
A68-7, -35. -72, -87, -121, -122, -141, -158, -164, -546, -679, -721, -755, -766 and -792.

Added photos to existing albums of
A68-1, -5, -30, -67, -104, -123, -162, -193, -194, -199, -679 and -801

Photos from AWM, Langdon Badger, Len Brighton, Luke Bryant, Neil Follett, Keith Gaff, Geoff Goodall, Ken Hodge, Lindsay Horner, Charles Mac KayNational Archives of Australia, RAAF


From the collection of Group Captain Eric Douglas (thanks to his daughter Sally Douglas)
Sopwith Pup
Fairey IIID
Bristol Bulldog
D.H.9 and D.H.9A
SE5a
D.H.50 A8-1
Avro 504K
Hawker Demon A1-2
DC-3 A30-2
DH.60 Moth A7-5, -7, -16, -22, -55, -94, -114
SeagullIII A9-3, -4, -5
Wapiti A5-3, -7, -12, -33, -37,
NA16 A20-1
Empire flying boat A18-10
Liberator A72-352
Mosquito A56-160

Caribou A4-140, -159, 173, -191, -199, -204, -208, -225, -228, -235, -236, -275 and -285 from Garry Bridge

CT-4 VH-YCG from Chris Brosnan

F-111 67-0106 DSTO photos, A8-109, 113, 148, Queensland Times

Seahawk N24-009 Stephen Wood

From Martin Edwards
Tracker N12-152812, -152334, -153597, -153582
Turana P1-023, -031
MRH90 training aid and Nowra LHD dummy deck
Neptune A89-273, -281
Canberra A84-502
Caribou A4-210
Seaking N16-118
Skyhawk N13-154911
Iroquois N9-3102
Meteor A77-878
Vampire A79-160, -637
Dakota A65-9, -41, -9, -95
Macchi A7-015, -025
Jindivik N11-609, A92-22
Auster A11-300
Tiger Moth A17-394

18,137 images in gallery

This week Martin and I have been updating our Beaufighter pages and Beaufighter Image Galleries:

A8 DAP Beaufighter http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a8.htm (Gordy, I couldn’t resist using that image of A8-173 as the title photo!)

A19 Bristol Beaufighter http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a19.htm

455 & 456 Sqn Beaufighters http://www.adf-serials.com.au/beaufighter.htm (This one was a major job with every airframe updated and several added, as well as marks, etc)

We need a source for the C/N to serials tie up for the thre Beaufighter pages – any ideas?

I’ve also updated the corresponding index pages:

RAAF Series Two http://www.adf-serials.com.au/raaf2.htm

RAAF Article XV Squadrons http://www.adf-serials.com.au/rafww11.htm

And we've also updated the image links for the Bandeirante http://www.adf-serials.com.au/bandeirante.htm

Cheers

Brendan

Updated Wessex page
http://www.adf-serials.com/n7.shtml

Added photos of
N7-200 Kim Dunstan, Dave Masterson
N7-201 Kim Dunstan (New album),
N7-208 Kim Dunstan
N7-209 Richard Kenderdine
N7-211 Kim Dunstan, Trevor Rieck.
N7-212 Richard Kenderdine
N7-213 Kim Dunstan
N7-215 Richard Kenderdine
N7-217 Dave Masterson
N7-220 Trevor Rieck.
N7-221 Kim Dunstan
N7-222 Dave Masterson





I have also added photos from Kim Dunstan of the following aircraft

Auster A11-300
Firefly WB518, WD892
Gannet XA334, XA-356, XA403 (New album), XG787 (New album),, XG789, XG792 (New album), 885 which we haven’t recorded a serial number for.
Meteor A77-207
Neptune A89-312
Sabre A94-12, -921 (New album), -936 (New album),
Sea Venom WZ927 (New album), WZ937
Sea Fury VX751 (New album)
Sycamore XA220, XA221, XN449 (New album),
Vampire A79-837

Thanks to all the contributors

18,255 Images in Gallery

Updated Neptune page
http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a89.shtml


Updated Republic Lancer page
Seems that we are being quoted and linked to a lot from other forums due to the reported recovery of such an aircraft from a building site in Wagga.
A very interesting discovery if true.
http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a56.shtml

Updated Fairey Battle page
http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a22.htm with new image links.

Updated the image links for the following pages:

Hawker Demon http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a1.htm

De Havilland Moth Series http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a7.htm

Auster http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a11.htm


More to come

Cheers


BC

Two more page updates today, this it's our two Miles Magister pages:

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a15.htm

http://www.adf-serials.com.au/magister.htm

Still more to come

Cheers


BC

Another for today, this is the first update for many years to our page on the:

Avro Cadet http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a6.htm


BC

Last update for today and it's another page that we haven't touched for years:

Tugan/Wackett Gannet http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a14.htm

Slowly, we are getting through updating our old pages to our new format, with updated information and more extensive photography.


Cheers


BC

On brand new page for today is for one that got away:

Hawker P.1081 http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a86.htm

Martin, I've loaded a set of images into the gallery as the basis for a new album.

Cheers

BC

Image gallery at http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Hawker-P-1081

One completely revamped page today:

Vickers Viking http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a82.htm

This was a bit of a doozey as it's registration was mixed up with that several other Vikings during it's time which lead to some confusion, but here it is all straightened out - I hope!

Cheers

BC

That's one aircraft with a really varied history.
It is a shame that it sucumbed to the scrappie rather than be given an honorable retirement in a museum.

Thanks Martin,

Todays RAAF Rarity is the:

Vultee Stinson Vigilant http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a64.htm

We could do with more details on this type including the reasons that the A64 serial range was allocated at at all!

Anyway, this is a little bit of what we know so far about these aircraft in RAAF sevice.

Cheers

Brendan

And here is another RAAF "ultra' rarity in the form of an aircraft that never flew with the RAAF:

Vickers Valetta http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a87.htm

To be honest, this is actually really a holding page for the type as it would be great to tell the story of why the A87 type number was issued in the first place.

Anyway, we now a have a page up for every aircraft in the RAAF Second Series!

Cheers


Brendan

Another page to go through a bit of spring cleaning today to bring it up to latest format and add some images is the :

Hunting Jet Provost http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a99.htm

We could do with some more photos of this rare little jet.

Over to you.

BC

While we are on one of a kind RAAF aircraft, here is an updated CAC CA-15 page:

CAC CA-15 http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a62.htm

Brendan

Here's another revamped page:

Short S.23 Empire http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a18.htm

Plus, a new front page for the:

DAP/Bristol Beaufort http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a9.htm

There are ten other pages that hang off the main Beaufort page that have not been touched for many years.

BC

Last one for today!

This time we have split the A-30 serialled DC-2, DC-3 and C-47's into their own page while bringing it up to our current format and image presentation:

Douglas A-30 DC-2, DC-3 & C-47 http://adf-serials.com.au/2a30.htm

One day soon, we will do the same for the A65 serialled (C-47, C-49, C-50 & C-54) Dakota's.

Brendan

Hi all,

The first catch of the day is an updated page on:

Convair CV-440 Metropolitan http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a96.htm

Has anyone got info on the final fate of A96-313?

It seems that A96-353 is still active!

Cheers


Brendan

And another page that hasn't been touched for a very long time:

A63 Link Celestial Navigation Trainer http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a63.htm

For the moment I've added generic photos from Link Corporation of CNT's but does any one have any photos of A63-1 at East Sale?

Cheers

BC

As promised all of our DC-2/3 7 C-47/49/50/53 Pages have now been brought up to our current format and image links:

RAAF A30 DC-2, DC-3 & C-47 http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a30.htm
RAAF A65 C-47 etc http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a65.htm
RAN N2 C-47 http://www.adf-serials.com.au/n2.htm

Brendan

Last chance today for October Updates!

Here's the first for today:

Noorduyn Norseman http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a71.htm


Cheers


BC



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Last update for this month - and what a month it's been!

This is our second crack for the month at the :

Republic P-43 Lancer http://www.adf-serials.com.au/2a56.htm

This time we have:

- Updated to the new format
- Added Gorden Birkett's article on the topic
- Updated the photo image links
- Updated the airframe histories for A56-1 and A 56-2 from the E/E.88 cards

I will try to complete the updates to A56-3,4,5,6,7 & 8 soon.

Cheers

Brendan

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What no pics for A18-11 and 12?

A18-11 first

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A18-12

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Another for A18-13 Moresby 41

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Thanks Gordy,

We can always count on you to plug the gaps.

Quite handy as it turns out in the world of flying boats!

All three images have now been added to the page.

Short S.23 Empire

Cheers

BC