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Re: Mystery Spad?
Well Clint
Without knowing in detail how neither the French production nor application of the SFA numbers worked, the below is built on guesswork, but here we go.
Initially the SPAD was not a very successful company.
Not until the very useful S.VII/XIII and other types based on that came along did they reach maturedom.
I can well imagine SFA assigning s/n 1-999 to SPAD
Then giving 1000 and up to someone else, 2000 to a third company etc. No idea how big these assigned batches were. Possibly in my books/articles somewhere.
We can be very certain though that no way almost 19000 SPAD aircraft were built furing the war!
Possibly the batches were allocated by SFA to factories, meaning that if SPAD built aircraft in more than one factory, such a place may have been given its own batch number
As you can see from the Denis site S.904 is in a sort of "limbo" all by itself
Cheers
Stig
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