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Re: Missing Southern Rhodesia Air Force serials SR14-SR21?
In a very interesting article Andy Thomas makes a somewhat different interpretation, listed here with some further comments by me
SR 1 to 6 Hawker Hart (K3877, K3888, K3889, K2986, K3886, K3028) I can't see how either K3025 or K3026 could have made it to Rhodesia. K3025 seems to have been smashed to pieces and K3026 went to SAAF as 352 on 5.8.1938.
SR 7 DH 82 Tiger Moth
SR 8 DH 89 Dragon Rapide (SR 9 has in the past been reported as another one, but so far no one has come up with an identity!)
SR 9 to 14 Hawker Audax (K3108, K3117, K7534, K7540, K7546, K7548)
150 - 152 Gloster Gauntlet (As far as I can see they may well have been intended to become SR 15 to SR 17)
The wartime SRAS is quite underresearched and so far I have seen reports about:
Hawker Hart/Audax: 101 to 112
DH Tiger Moth: 201 to 204 (but photo exists of 231 in 1943)
DH Leopard Moth: 250 to 252
DH Dragon: 260
DH Dragon Rapide: 300 to 305
Postwar it seems SRAF continued with SR 18 and up, but I cannot find any aircraft fitting SR 20
Someone also asked about SR 28. This was an Auster J1 ex G-AGTU
Cheers
Stig
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