Dornier Do 17 U factory plate
 

Greetings! Is it possible to identify the part it is from or even something about the aircraft itself? It probably belonged to the Transportgruppe Herzog or Aufklärungsstaffel 4.(F)/Nacht. Thanks in advance!

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Re: Dornier Do 17 U factory plate
 

It appears to be W.Nr. 2437. Interesting and rare finding. It should be possible to identify the part with an Ersatzteilliste. The L suggest that it was Links, that is a part which were used in two positions, for example a landing gear door or similar.

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Thank you very much! I haven't seen wrecks of Do 17's standing on the place of find or anywhere else on the end-war photos which are known to me, but it's the second plate from it (first-not mine-was version E2, W.Nr. probably 2037)

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Hi!

Are you selling it?
:)

Mike

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Nope, sorry

Today I found another one. Same Sach Nr. as well as Werk Nr. It should be left (or left part of) engine cover. I didn't know one part had two plates.

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Another one, better shape.
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Another one from last week. I didn't know that even such a big part as engine cover could have two plates.

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Why can't edit this post? Please help.

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Mike

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Wn match with the U model, 2434/32/33 are known , but where the data plate hs been found ??

Rémi

Re: Dornier Do 17 U factory plate
 

They are from two different parts since a part only had one plate. If they are from an engine cover (which is a good idea), there would be two similar parts, since there were two engines. Same goes for wheel bay doors, there would be two right wheel bay doors, and two left. Both whould have the same content on their plates since they would be interchangeble with each other. As I said above, check with a Truppenersatzteilliste and you will get the answer

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Airfield Vysoke Myto (Hohenmauth) Czech Republic . Aufklärungsstaffel 4.(F)/Nacht was stationed here. Maybe it belonged to this unit. A friend of mine has a spare parts list for Do 17 and told me it was on engine cover.

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Mickael, may I suggest that the "L" stands for links as in left (i.e., left side). I agree that there would/should have been only one identification plate on each assembly. In the case of the engine covers, perhaps there were multiple covers (cowl segments) of equal design that enclosed an engine, but unique to the left or right engine, thus marked L (or R). What we may be looking at are two plates from two equal covers off a left engine. I have seen similar Do plates marked with an "R", which I associate with rechts or right side. If the covers were universal on both sides I doubt that L or R would appear. Just a thought…

It's interesting that what seems to be the airplane's WNr is entered on such plates; note, on both plates a "7" overstrikes a "6" for the last digit.

Hohenmauth, thank you for sharing the plates.

Steve

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Stephen, I'm well aware of the meaning of Links... U phrased it a bit more eloquent than I did.

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Losses we hv for schools nd training groups ...not a lot of them produced..

Rémi