Luftwaffe aircraft with same Wnr.?

[Micke D]

Both the Fw 190D-9 and Me 262's have numbers in the 500xxx range.

[Graham Boak]

The same numbers? Or in different blocks?

[Tomislav Haramincic]

The six figure WNrs were also not unique. Here just an example:

WNr.110 051 Bf 110G-4 BE+QK
WNr.110 051 Fi 156C-3 DJ+UK
WNr.110 051 He 111H-11 GL+EA

best regards,
Tomislav

[Micke D]

Sorry Graham, I don't have any WNrs for the 262's, so I can't compare them.

[RT]

But the 4 digits codes are part of the full code , 088+... for Ju88 for example
6 digits, the example of Tomi is maybe explained by the fact that those codes are given at the beg. or maybe prior to the beg. of the use of the 6 digits system, we hv the same with 100+++ a m. of Ju87 Ar196 Ar232
130+++ Ju87+Ju52 140+++ Bf109+Ju88+Ju87+Hs129 but not the Fw190A
160+++ Fw190G /Bf109G/He111H The only example in the higher numbers I hv found is 550+++ Ju88/Bf109

Remi

[Seaplanes]

Regarding the six-digit Werknummer system introduced from summer 1942 as a trial and made compulsary by RLM for most manufacturers from early 1943, is based on a system were the main factory, like Focke-Wulf for themselves and for all their licencees, issued a two-digit number identifying the producer and the model of the aircraft, followed by four digits which was the actual Werk-nummer. RLM ordered the factories to make gaps in the series of Werk-nummern, to make it more difficult for enemy intelligence to reconstruct production batches. As it was up to each factory, like Focke-Wulf, to issue the two digits to their licencees, it is obvious that aircraft from different producers could end up with the same six-digit Werk-nummer. However, aircraft of the same main type, like Fw 190, never received duplicated Werk-nummern. I have for years believed that these Werk-nummern were issued by RLM to each factory, but this seems not to be the case.