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Originally Posted by Matti Salonen
The wooden fin was obviously quite standard in normal G-6 aircraft. At least 58 of the 110 G-6 aircraft received by the Finnish Air Force between March - August 1944 were fitted with that. Those were from series 411xxx, 412xxx, 163xxx, 164xxx, 165xxx, 166xxx and 167xxx. Only two of them were G-6/AS.
Matti
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Matti,
No G6 I know of that came from factory had a wood tall tail. The only instance was when it was a re-build.
Wood tails did not appear until mid 1944, when aluminum was getting scarce.
The number blocks you are referring to are all far too early (late 1943) to be factory wood tall tails.