Hi Alex,
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I make the list about 246 or so quite higher than the 204 a/c noted in an earlier post.
Thats not including any ex French that may have crossed to Great Britain after the fall of France. On which does anyone have details of any that did? I have found nothing at all.
If there were some then the number could be as high as 250.
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Deliveries recorded under both French contracts F-156 and F-273 :
AR630-634 (5)........Aug/Dec 1940
AR635-694 (60).....Aug/Dec 1940
AX880-898 (19).......Nov/Dec 1940
BB918-937 (20)......Sep 1940/Mar 1941
BB938-973 (-)........undelivered
BB974-979 (6)........Sep 1940/Mar 1941
BJ434-453 (20).......Oct 1940/Jan 1941
BJ531-550 (20).......Oct 1940
BJ574-588 (-)........undelivered
BK569-588 (20)......Nov/Dec 1940
BK876-879 (4)........Nov 1940/Jan 1941
BL220-223 (4)........Dec 1940
BS730-738 (9)........Oct 1940
BS739-743 (-)........undelivered
BS744-747 (4)........Oct 1940
BS784-798 (15)......Dec 1940/Mar 1941
BT470-472 (3)........Mar 1941
Total..........204*
(*) in fact, this total is 209 because the first five AR630-634 are H-75A-6 from the Norvegian contract. Some batches of serial are undelivered and if you discount those, the total should be right... but one :
Serial AX799, found with 5th
Squadron/ 151 OTU / 208 MU, lost in Jodhpur 7.6.1942.
On the other hand, "Number 10" arrived at A&AEE on 11th July 1940, and is supposed to be a Mohawk IV. This one is obviously a French one escaped from France and the H-751 N°10 c/n 13815 is missing as well in France. We still need to check this aircraft in British archives, but I guess it's the same plane escaped from Bourges around 15th June piloted by a Czech or Polish pilot.
Regards,
Olivier Bacca.