Missing Southern Rhodesia Air Force serials SR14-SR21?

[paulmcmillan]

All

There is some confusion over the Harts and Audax

But lets start with the Harts

A Pride of Eagles: A History of the Rhodesian Air Force

1936 Government "6 Hawker Harts by end of Year"

However we also quoted (Internet)

Hart (seven a/c shipped in crates from the UK to Beira, Mozambique in March 1937, and then to Cranborne, SR by railway):

K3877 (became SR1), K3888 (SR2), K3889 (SR3), K2986 (SR4), K3886 (SR5), 'K3025' and K3026 (perhaps SR6 and SR7).


K3025 was written off in crash landing in RAF in Feb 1937 'spun in' I wonder if supplied as Instructional airframe or a mis-ident for K3028

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=207001


Anyway

Rhodesian Air Force: the sanctions busters

Has

SR1 Hawker Hart 1937 -> K3877
SR2 Hawker Hart 1937 -> K3888
SR3 Hawker Hart 1937 ->K3889
SR4 Hawker Hart 1937 -> K2986
SR5 Hawker Hart 1937 -> 'K3025' -WRONG Photo evidence has this as K3886
SR6 Hawker Hart 1937 -> (K3028) maybe K3026

I assume in brackets for unproven

This is different


It is possible the 'extra Hart' was an Instructional Airframe and may have been given a SR serial later

I think K3025 (if right was the Instructional Airframe)

Not convinced the Gauntlets are the missing numbers

http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/waf/aa-a...types/hart.htm