Halifax A VII Serial needed (1 Viewer)

Hi folks,

I am new here, and making a Halifax - Horsa tug-and-glider pair for a friend, whose father was a navigator. The aircraft I am interested in is 8T-L, flying from Woodford, in March 1945. I am trying to find the serial of the aircraft. So far, I know it was from 'B' Flight, 298 Squadron and it was an A. Mk. VII, but I cannot trace it from the various records.

Can anyone help, please?

Welcome aboard. May be a long shot but this site has a growing database.

These are all the serial numbers

You can look thru thru movement cards using the S/N's provided by fubar57 and see which Mk VII's were assigned to 298 Sqdn to narrow it down.

e.g. NA311

Try
search string, include quotes, "AIR 27/1649"

Gives 298 squadron summary (and record) of events, the March 1945 list of sorties start on page 280, the pages before that a summary of March 1945 operations. The sortie entries usually have the serial, aircraft letter and crew names, for March 1945 most are Halifax III. Readable online through watermarks or order a copy from the archives.

Rootes started A.VII production in January 1945, 15 built by end February, then another 33 in March, serials as above. Fairey started production in March (Serials starting PN223), 13 built by end of month, Handley page production started in August (Serials starting PP339). 120 A.VII built by Rootes, 45 by Fairey and 30 by Handley Page