Halifax bomber serial numbers

[33k in the air]

Does anyone have the list of Halifax bomber serial numbers, or know of an online source with such data?

I have reference sources containing the Stirling and Lancaster serial numbers, but not the Halifax. I'd like to know what serial numbers applied to which Halifax bomber model.

 

[fubar57]

As would I. I had a Lancaster site for serial numbers years ago but the guy shut it down due to people selling his work online

 

[mjfur]

Perhaps here Handley Page Halifax Forum

or here RAF Aircraft Serial Numbers Database you would need to do the leg work. All serials listed.

 

[33k in the air]

As would I. I had a Lancaster site for serial numbers years ago but the guy shut it down due to people selling his work online

You can find the Lancaster serial numbers in Avro Lancaster — The Definitive Record by Harry Holmes and Avro Lancaster by Richard Marks. (The library system here has both in circulation.)

Stirling bomber serial numbers are included in Michael J.F. Bowyer's book The Stirling Bomber.

The book Handley Page Halifax by Anthony L. Stachiw and Andrew Tattersall is a fairly detailed examination of the aircraft, but doesn't include the serial numbers. Hence this thread.

 

[33k in the air]

Perhaps here Handley Page Halifax Forum

or here RAF Aircraft Serial Numbers Database you would need to do the leg work. All serials listed.

Thanks. I've used the latter before, but misunderstood how the search works. Didn't realize I could search by model type.

 

[fubar57]

At work at the moment. I’ll PM you in the morning. HO HO HO

 

[Geoffrey Sinclair]

There are a number of web sites with the serial number lists plus Robertson's British Military Aircraft Serials.

R9535 to R9540 were used as pattern aircraft, they were not built.

A memo dated 4 April 1944 indicates two mark III delivered on 19 February and one delivered in March 1944 meant to be built by Fairey were actually delivered as sets of components to Handley Page and so never actually built. It is understood this was done with a total of five aircraft, LK870, LK872, LK881, LK882 and NA507 which have blank contract card and delivery log entries. Removing these five results in agreement with the MAP total.

The final 30 mark III ordered from Rootes, NA281 to NA310, were officially completed as A.III that is as glider tugs and/or paratrooper transports.

If you want a full list let me know.

Lancasters have a small number of differences between sources about whether some aircraft were mark I or III.

Stirlings, apart from the 11 destroyed on the production line there is whether EF399 was the last mark I or first mark III built by Shorts.

 

[33k in the air]

Strictly speaking, I'd only need the serials for the Halifax II and V.

A few squadron ORBs only list the aircraft flown by serial number during the time it was flying the early model Halifax. I'd like to be able to specify whether it was the II or V when recording the bomb loads.

 

[fubar57]

PM sent

 

[Geoffrey Sinclair]

Halifax Bomber serial numbers. Mark II 900 by English Electric, 608 by Handley page, 450 by London Aircraft Production, 12 by Rootes, total 1,970, mark V 246 by Fairey, 658 by Rootes, total 904. In serial order,

No.	Start	End	Mark	Factory
15​	L9610	L9624	II	Handley Page
30​	R9363	R9392	II	Handley Page
40​	R9418	R9457	II	Handley Page
17​	R9482	R9498	II	Handley Page
7​	R9528	R9534	II	Handley Page
19​	V9976	V9994	II	English Electric
20​	W1002	W1021	II	English Electric
33​	W1035	W1067	II	English Electric
28​	W1090	W1117	II	English Electric
50​	W1141	W1190	II	English Electric
43​	W1211	W1253	II	English Electric
7​	W1270	W1276	II	English Electric
30​	W7650	W7679	II	Handley Page
26​	W7695	W7720	II	Handley Page
40​	W7745	W7784	II	Handley Page
26​	W7801	W7826	II	Handley Page
44​	W7844	W7887	II	Handley Page
34​	W7906	W7939	II	Handley Page
35​	BB189	BB223	II	London Aircraft Production
50​	BB236	BB285	II	London Aircraft Production
45​	BB300	BB344	II	London Aircraft Production
35​	BB357	BB391	II	London Aircraft Production
35​	BB412	BB446	II	London Aircraft Production
12​	DG219	DG230	II	Rootes
23​	DG231	DG253	V	Rootes
48​	DG270	DG317	V	Rootes
26​	DG338	DG363	V	Rootes
41​	DG384	DG424	V	Rootes
20​	DJ980	DJ999	V	Fairey
38​	DK114	DK151	V	Fairey
43​	DK165	DK207	V	Fairey
49​	DK223	DK271	V	Fairey
46​	DT481	DT526	II	English Electric
50​	DT539	DT588	II	English Electric
38​	DT612	DT649	II	English Electric
41​	DT665	DT705	II	English Electric
33​	DT720	DT752	II	English Electric
42​	DT767	DT808	II	English Electric
34​	EB127	EB160	V	Rootes
43​	EB178	EB220	V	Rootes
20​	EB239	EB258	V	Rootes
3​	EB274	EB276	V	Rootes
46​	HR654	HR699	II	Handley Page
48​	HR711	HR758	II	Handley Page
47​	HR773	HR819	II	Handley Page
49​	HR832	HR880	II	Handley Page
48​	HR905	HR952	II	Handley Page
12​	HR977	HR988	II	Handley Page
45​	HX147	HX191	II	Handley Page
4​	HX222	HX225	II	Handley Page
26​	JB781	JB806	II	English Electric
42​	JB834	JB875	II	English Electric
40​	JB892	JB931	II	English Electric
19​	JB956	JB974	II	English Electric
24​	JD105	JD128	II	English Electric
38​	JD143	JD180	II	English Electric
21​	JD198	JD218	II	English Electric
35​	JD244	JD278	II	English Electric
38​	JD296	JD333	II	English Electric
26​	JD361	JD386	II	English Electric
17​	JD405	JD421	II	English Electric
24​	JD453	JD476	II	English Electric
45​	JN882	JN926	II	London Aircraft Production
38​	JN941	JN978	II	London Aircraft Production
31​	JP107	JP137	II	London Aircraft Production
49​	JP159	JP207	II	London Aircraft Production
40​	JP220	JP259	II	London Aircraft Production
27​	JP275	JP301	II	London Aircraft Production
20​	JP319	JP338	II	London Aircraft Production
42​	LK626	LK667	V	Fairey
32​	LK680	LK711	V	Fairey
22​	LK725	LK746	V	Fairey
43​	LK890	LK932	V	Rootes
32​	LK945	LK976	V	Rootes
12​	LK988	LK999	V	Rootes
42​	LL112	LL153	V	Rootes
32​	LL167	LL198	V	Rootes
46​	LL213	LL258	V	Rootes
43​	LL270	LL312	V	Rootes
43​	LL325	LL367	V	Rootes
44​	LL380	LL423	V	Rootes
33​	LL437	LL469	V	Rootes
41​	LL481	LL521	V	Rootes
9​	LL534	LL542	V	Rootes
24​	LW223	LW246	II	English Electric
43​	LW259	LW301	II	English Electric
33​	LW313	LW345	II	English Electric

According to Jefford, Halifax II and V used by 40 different squadrons,
II only 10, 35, 51, 58, 78, 102, 103, 158, 178, 419, 460, 462, 466, 502, 511, 614
V only, 295, 296, 297, 298, 347, 427, 431, 434, 517, 518, 520, 644
II and V, 76, 77, 138, 148, 161, 192, 301, 346, 408, 428, 429, 624