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Originally Posted by harrison987
Question...
"The Änderungsstufe plate was added to indicate subsequent changes that might appear during the operational use of the aircraft"
Only dates were added into this spot, as shown on the G-10 here in the USA...so if it was intended to indicate changes, why only show a date? Seems reduntant, unless the chnages were indicated as well. Also, why were these plate not found on all G-10's? and why ONLY G-10's?
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Hi Mike and Grzegorz,
Mike, thats a really good question. If I remember correctly, on the Änderungsstufe plate of WNr.610937 only one field was stamped with the 12.44 date. in the JaPo book the possibility was mentioned that this date could represent the date of production, which in the case of 610937 could be true. I have never seen a plate with two or more fields stamped, so I guess we can't really determine if the fields were only date stamped without the indicated changes or with the changes. An other explanation could be that the 12.44 was the date of the U4 modificaton. On the other hand, all of the WNF produced G-10's were U4's and the modification was already done during production, so IMHO there was actually no need to specially express the date of this modification. I've looked through a few photos and I think that even not all DIANA prodused G-10 had that second plate. It would be nice to know if ERLA produced G-10/R6's had such or similar plates.