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#542 : It is RT-B N6153 Bertrand |
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I have a better copy and it shows the aircraft to be N6143 (and not N6153) Cheers Stig |
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Bertrand
It is correct that RT-B is N6153 but the photo you refer to as post # 542 does not show N6153, it shows N6143 Cheers Stig |
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N6143 ended its days with the Fleet Air Arm.
N6153 possibly one of half a dozen destroyed on the ground at Conde-Vraux on the 11th May, 1940. |
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Really odd Alex
I am away from my books, so cannot check Is the photo manipulated? No way that the third digit can be a 5. Cheers Stig |
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Just to confuse the issue.. here is RT-B I think is Greece N5153
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Hello,
For what it is worth. I have before before me AB's L1000-N9999. Pages 172/3. N6143 101/5 BGS/614/13/42 OTU/140/42 OTU To Admiralty. N6153 114 Presumed lost in France 5.40. Of interest is that - N6154 114 Presumed lost in France 5.40. N6145 114 Missing from Reconnaisance off Heligoland in bad weather 11.11.39. From AB's "FAA Aircraft 1939-1945" as on page 50 - N6143 To FAA 2.1.44; Eglinton to Stretton 10.2.44; Gosport to Worthy Down 13.3.45; Stretton 15.3.45; Cosford to RAE 26.3.45; Stretton 12.4.45. Re Stig's picture. The "4" looks to me to be oddly a hard looking number between other soft looking numbers, so my opinion is that this picture has been doctored to make it look like it is N6143, I repeat, it is only my opinion. No offence implied Stig, perhaps you've been sold a pup? Then again it could be a photo taken post WW2 at a Navy a/c dump, but the number"4" still seems odd to me. Alex |
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