Breguet's Crashfile ID Challenge #318b

[Froggy]

Hello David

The serial number 1724 means that this aircraft was registered in the end of 1914 (number 1601 in November 1914)
When the Numbering series reached 10000 in 1916, it was not considered practical to paint five figure numbers onto aircraft. So a new system was introduced with the number prefixed by a letter.To differentiate between aircraft ordered by the RNAS and the RFC , all army orders began with the Prefix "A" and the Navy orders prefix "N".

Cordialement
Bruno

[Breguet]

Anyone have the book on serial numbers?

[Varese2002]

Originally Posted by Breguet

Anyone have the book on serial numbers?

Robertson, Bruce. 1979. British military aircraft serials, 1911-1979. Cambridge, Eng: P. Stephens. ISBN 0850593603

Cheers

Kees

[Breguet]

Originally Posted by Varese2002

Robertson, Bruce. 1979. British military aircraft serials, 1911-1979. Cambridge, Eng: P. Stephens. ISBN 0850593603

Cheers

Kees

OK........so anyone able to tell us what this serial relates to....

[Varese2002]

From Bruce Robertson

Serial 1724 sits within a batch of 96 B.E.2c built by British and Colonial Aeroplane Co [total order 1652-1747]

Serial A1724 sits within a batch of 31 Henry Farman built by the Aircraft Manufacturing Co. Hendon [total order A1712 - A1741]. Unfortunately there is not more than Henry Farman here.

The batch A1712-A1741 built by Airco is identified by J.M. Bruce in The aeroplanes of the Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing) as a Henry Farman H.F.20.

Cheers
Kees

[Breguet]

Thanks Kees, as always most helpful.

Your call David, but I would suggest .4 to Kees for bringing this to a conclusion and .6 and the next challenge to matte_kudasai for getting there first.

['14-'18aviationcollector]

Originally Posted by Breguet

Your call David, but I would suggest .4 to Kees for bringing this to a conclusion and .6 and the next challenge to matte_kudasai for getting there first.

An excellent call under difficult circumstances. I feel bad for Marc and Boris in particular, because they gave reasonable answers early on, but yes Kees did bring this difficult crash file challenge to a close, and Matte was the first to provide the most correct and comprehensive answer he could be expected to give under the circumstances, so I feel your proposal is very fair. I hope there are no objections, I am sure that everyone will be happy for Kees and Matte. Thanks Adrian!

Congratulations Kees and Matte! You guys will probably laugh, but the caption actually says MF shorthorn! I guess it could be some variation of a Shorthorn, but I don't think so. Since all this discussion started I looked at drawings of the Shorthorn and I don't think this is a Shorthorn. Given all the evidence I am sure that it must be a MF 20. Thanks also to everyone else for your contributions.

Scoreboard At the end of #318b

34.3 FOKKERJ Feuchtwanger ¤ the Ace of Aces ¤
31.7 Froggy ¤
28.6 Rbailey ¤
21.00 Breguet
17.15 YavorD
16.5 Flamingo
12.60 Richard B
09.75 Aquilius
08.7 Varese2002
08.25 AROTH
08.0 ONEALM
07.9 Gregvan
8.1 Rod_Filan
05.75 Ross
05.7 Jeroplan
05.5 Expositor
05.5 Gilles
05.0 Dan_San
05.0 Kilian
05.0 matte_kudasai
04.8 '14-'18aviationcollector
04.0 Edmond
04.0 Eric
04.0 Laserlloyd
03.5 sergio_vitalio
03.3 PaulForster
03.2 Colin A Owers
03.2 Crankcase
03.0 Crimso
03.0 Patrick
02.7 Tbstreet
02.0 Cruze
02.0 Rickenbaron
01.8 gregorydquist
01.8 Tom L
01.5 Nieuport 14
01.45 Ransom E. Olds
01.0 Albatros_Ace
01.0 Ampovandak
01.0 Berman
01.0 brisfitworks
01.0 Cliff
01.0 Pvernon
01.0 rammjaeger
01.0 Rexee
01.0 RONNY BAR
01.0 Troy Raines
00.5 Miroslav Pokorny
00.1 SCMc

All yours Matte!

Congratulations on making it as an ace!

[crankcase]

Originally Posted by '14-'18aviationcollector

An excellent call under difficult circumstances. I feel bad for Marc...

No need to feel bad. I was being opportunistic. I will earn my points honestly!!!
marc