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Originally Posted by Tomislav Haramincic
There are similar examples of such marking in the AS production.
00707733/819 AS0
00709343/1437 AS0
etc., where the number after the slash was also the assembly number of the rebuild AS, but it was not in sequence with the original engine number.
BTW, does anyone have any recorded AS engine numbers that do not start with 007xxxxx, or is it possible that for some reason only Genshagen produced engines were used for the production of AS engines (rebuilds)?
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Hi again Tomislav,
Going back into the production data/dates of DB 605 AS engines that you list, I estimate that 00707733/819 was built in the first week of June '44 and was the 819th production AS engine. At this point, the MW50 system was just being introduced.
Next, 00709343/1437 would have been built at the end of July '44 as the 1,437th production AS engine.
Now, this would appear to make approx 600 AS engines built out of 1,900 DB 605's built at Genshagen in the period, Jun+Jul '44, about 30% share of Genshagen 605 production in those two months .
If you remember the Dec '43 flight test engine 00702626 I mentioned, that was built mid Oct '43. The production till DB 605 AS0 00707733/819 was 5,107 engines, giving about 15% to AS production.
So, over this whole period, if production was steady, the rate of Genshagen DB 605 AS construction was about 20% of total Genshagen 605 production. To me, this would seem likely to fit with a separate production shop/line producing about 5 DB 605 AS engines per day, 7 days a week, out of the total average of 25 DB 605 engines a day for the whole period covered here, ie mid Oct '43 to end Jul '44, or just about 8.5 months.
But, reviewing the way it works out, I suspect that the production of the AS was at a lower rate from October '43 until maybe late spring '44 when it was increased, giving the changing percentage output.
Well, however the work was organised, it was a considerable production.
Additionally, other data for Messerschmitt Regensburg aircraft production lists 325 Bf 109 G-6AS and 1,373 G14-AS built between Jan '44 to Dec '44.
SM