Non-standard Lw codes on a CRDA Cant Z.506 in Greece

[byron-]

I know the picture, it is Patras indeed

[veltro]

Turning back to the codes, they're very interesting indeed, especially because there is at least another occurrence of such kind of codes on a Cant Z 1007 bomber seen in Bresso (Milan) in early 1944 and apparently belonging to the RACSA (Reparto Aereo Collegamento Sottosegretariato Aeronautica) of the A.N.R.



If this "WL+23-xx" pattern is coherent (and usually German things are...), it would mean that there is a type of coding that has escaped us so far...

It would be great to find other examples who could help to explain (or confound even more ) such interesting aspect.

[veltro]

I am reviving this thread both because no one apparently had an answer about the "WL+23-xx" codes and because I have found several images (which I am attaching) and which show a repeated occurrance of what seems a similar code scheme on pre-war German aircraft.

Those planes had a code which follows the "WL+xxxx" scheme, where the "x" are letters and which in some old texts is explained as a code relative to aircraft purchased by the Luftwaffe but used in non-military context.

That this could still be valid more than five years later is a long strecht, but I wonder if the "WL+" had the same source, the "23" eventually identifying the nationality of the aircraft (blind guess, I know) and the last two numbers being the ordinal sequence of the aircraft coded, somehow along the lines of the codes used in the "Kondor Legion" planes, where the first numbers identified the type of aircraft and the second couple their ordinal number...

Like I said, I know these are guesses, but it would be interesting to have some opinions and (with some luck) some other examples of the 1944-45 codes...