[Tony Jones]

David

There are numerous mistakes in the LEMB database so you should only use this as a very basic check. For example many Klemm L 26 are listed as L 25, many He 72 listed are in fact Fw 44 and vice versa.

Now in the early 1930's there was a pattern of allocations but then you will find that there were some that didn't fit the pattern, which is a great pity.

With Ju 52 the sequence in werke number order appeared to be (one a/c) per Letter D-AB**, AF, AG, AH, AJ, AK, AL AM,AN,AP,AQ,AR,AS,AT,AV,AX and AZ, then AB etc. This is correct in many instances but when you expect say AN as the next allocation an AB appears, no AN but then AP. Then as time passed it got very erratic and many letters were out of order and other letters such as D-AA, D-AC etc appeared.

With He 45 for example the letter sequence appeared to be D-IG, IH,IJ,IK,IL,IM etc with say 3, 4 or more to the letter before moving to the next letter. It didn't start at IG but the section I looked at seemed to follow this pattern.

Does anyone have any more information on this subject.

Regards

Tony