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Originally Posted by Roger_m
Hello,
I am new here. I am trying to identify an early Spit (probably a MkIIA). The firewall dataplate reads:
SERIAL No. HAI 6S 75198
DRWG No. 30027 SHT 7 ISSUE 14
PASSED 83
Any chance to identify the aircraft’s RAF serial and history? All I know is that the plane crashed in the North of France, place and date unfortunately unknown.
Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Roger
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This data plate is from the 'Frame 5' firewall, which was a sub contracted part by Supermarine (6S) to Heston Aircraft Industries (HAI).
'300' tells us it is a Mk I and '27' that it is from the fuselage group.
If every sub-assembly was sequential, and it varies, the identity of this aircraft would be X4354 by transposition of known data for X4276.
I would therefore start your research on plus or minus half a dozen on X4354 and see if anything looks to be a candidate.
PeterA