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Re: Photo Curtiss Aircraft
Hi Clint
Pity the photos are so indifferent....
What you are looking at are not US Signal Corps/Air Service serial numbers, but those huge training centers' own code system digits.
In 1918 Curtiss with good help of other sub-manufacturers were spitting out Jennies as fast as they could.
At some point, with the US training centers being swamped with all these trainers, someone came up with the good idea to have their own code numbers all very neatly collected together instead of the enormous mixture of various true serial numbers.
Pity for us, but admittedly a relief for everyone working at those bases at the time.
Cheers
Stig
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