I have just purchased this P47 windscreen for my world war II aviation collection. I have found a series of numbers stamped to the side of this piece. will this number tell me anything about the aircraft that this piece was supposed to be attached to? I looked on Wikipedia and it seems all of the p-47 numbers start with a "42" or "43" etc. is this just the serial number for the cockpit windscreen alone and not for a specific aircraft?
P47 windscreen... What will this number tell me?
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Crimea_River
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It's very unlikely that you will be able to relate the stamped number to an actual aircraft. It's likely a part number, with the same number being stamped on thousands of identical units.
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Well if I remember, early P-47's had a pointed, not flat windscreen, so you may be able to narrow down the actual model.
T Bolt
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I bought a similar windscreen a number of years ago and the guy that was selling them told me he got a bunch of them from a Corning glass factory in the far west suburbs of Chicago. He said they manufactured them for Republic and had quite a few on hand when the war ended and the P-47 contracts were canceled. These windscreens, some finished and some partly finished had sat on shelves at the Corning factory for years and years before he found out about them and bought the lot.
I know fellow member Rocketeer also picked one up.
Your windscreen looks just like mine and Tony's so my guess is that it came from the same lot.
Seeing that they were being manufactured when the P-47 contracts were canceled at the end of the war my guess it that it was intended for either a P-47D-40, P-47M, or a P-47N
Here's mine. It still has the protective paper on the side windows
I know fellow member Rocketeer also picked one up.
Your windscreen looks just like mine and Tony's so my guess is that it came from the same lot.
Seeing that they were being manufactured when the P-47 contracts were canceled at the end of the war my guess it that it was intended for either a P-47D-40, P-47M, or a P-47N
Here's mine. It still has the protective paper on the side windows
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P-47 p/n as follows: "D" models 89, "N" models 93, others are 96 and 101.
I 'd like to refer you to the AAF publication, "Security Information, Codes and Descriptions " It list applicable numbers per aircraft type and model, along with some of the common numbers which can be found on a number of aircraft. My volume lists P-36 thur P-63's, B-17's thur B-32's, among others cargo, liaision, trainers as well as giving some navy types used by AAF.
Littorio, "42" and "43" are numbers for parts on A-26 .
