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Re: Mystery Spad?
Very good question
I know far too little about the assigning of serialnumbers by SFA and their relationship to the numbers the manufacturer used.
The French manufacturers were very early to adopt their specific numbers, so if you check those known, you will find they usually began from number 1.
If they actually put a plate on the aircraft is not known by me, but Breguet at least painted the factory number on his aircraft, in many cases on one of the struts.
Caudron kept a very good diary which seems to have been preserved. Their c/n are very much different from the SFA assigned numbers
Cheers
Stig
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