unknown WNr.

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Originally Posted by Marc-André Haldimann

Very good questions, Franck!

Maybe Charles or Jörn have some insights in this seemingly "pick what you have " process at factory level...

Whas it also a matter of having recycled airframes being reallocated a new W.Nr. after their rebuilding? I'm thinking of those two dataplates affixed under the cockpit we can see on some of those machines... An example a contrario is W.Nr. 163824 which stuck to its original W.Nr. despite its umpteen refurbishing...

Ah, headache!
Marc

One solution concerning this "mess" comes from a sentence made by Rasmussen in another thread:
"... The gaps might be due to the air attack from 21st July 1944 on the Mtt Regensburg-Prüfening and Obertraubling factories. Two production hangars full with Bf109s of an advanced and final assembly status had been destroyed almost completely " (sorry no time to find the said thread)

and can be easily pictured by this (for example)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2809206...in/photostream

Hence instead of having beautiful lines in a workshop we are facing a lot of little workshops, sprayed all around, with their own tools and their OWN spare parts and building what they can build with what they have.

But! missed an explanation for following WNr.s from a workshop to another one...
I can imagine the guy running with his plate stamping machine from one workshop to another one ... Well, phone is a solution but not that different:
"Hey what WNr. you did?" "782442!" "OK, mine will be 782443" "No, better to check with Hans first, it seams they already did it! " and so on ...

Regards, Franck.