Propeller of crashed plane near Linz, Austria

[Deleted member 78499]

I found a WWII propeller in a barn. Can someone help me with which aircraft this is. The plane crashed near Linz, Austria.
Its about 1,7 meters high.

 

[Snautzer01]

Looks american. Hamilton

 

[mjfur]

Looks like the Hamilton Standard cuffed blade from a P-51. Black rubber remnants on the bottom half, paint faded/gone on the top half.
https://plasticfantastique.com/wp-c...American-P-51D-Mustang-Hendon-007.jpg?gid=115

 

[Michael Hope]

From looking at the blade with the Hamilton Standard Decal, it had an aerodynamic cuff added to it. It possibly could be from a P51 Mustang. It looks like I just got beat to the posting.

 

[Snautzer01]

P-47 also a possibillity.

 

[mjfur]

P-47 also a possibillity.

I don't recall cuffed HS props on P-47's. Lot's of cuffed Curtiss props though.

http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/images/P/-/P-47_Thunderbolt__low_full.jpg

https://wingstracksguns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/p-47-ill-get-by.jpg

 

[Snautzer01]

Just read some p-47 had hamiltons but apperantly not cuffed so there goes that out of the window.

 

[Michael Hope]

I have blown up and rotated the serial number image and you can barely read the DWG # which I see "K65?3A?" which corresponds to the P51 using the K6523A-24 blade which had aerodynamic cuffs installed.

 

[Deleted member 78499]

Does such a part still have any value?

 

[Snautzer01]

Put it up on ebay and find out.

 

[Tom Bucklew]

From looking at the blade with the Hamilton Standard Decal, it had an aerodynamic cuff added to it. It possibly could be from a P51 Mustang. It looks like I just got beat to the posting.

The blade has the number 436009 stenciled on it. This would be in the range of USAAF serial numbers issued for P51if it was 43-6009

 

[Michael Hope]

The blade has the number 436009 stenciled on it. This would be in the range of USAAF serial numbers issued for P51if it was 43-6009

The "436009" is the blade MFG #, i.e. serial # of the blade. With that serial number, all numbers, without any leading letters, then it would tend to indicate a blade made by Hamilton Standard, not one of it's licensee's. If the blade had "NK", that it would have been manufacturer by Nash Kelvinator; if it was "RR" Remington Rand ; "CC" Canadian Car, to mane a few. From the blade serial # is not traceable to a particular aircraft, as there was about a million blades or more manufactured during WW II.

 

[GrumpyOldCrewChief]

To trace a blade back to an individual aircraft would be difficult today, with modern record keeping (just difficult, not impossible). Maintenance records were not as rigorously kept during wartime, and many of the records that were kept at the time have not survived till today, so it might just be impossible. As shown above we can track the group that blade came from, and was intended for, but not were it ultimately ended up.

 

[BobB]

To trace a blade back to an individual aircraft would be difficult today, with modern record keeping (just difficult, not impossible). Maintenance records were not as rigorously kept during wartime, and many of the records that were kept at the time have not survived till today, so it might just be impossible. As shown above we can track the group that blade came from, and was intended for, but not were it ultimately ended up.

This is a sample of a propeller record card from WWII. They kept track as it was moved from base to base. I've seen a similar card for a carburetor. Props and engines should still have good records today but some years ago when my employer, Lockheed Martin, asked Ogden ALC about the lives of some components, they said that they didn't know anything about total time on components; they just knew that they were sent in for overhaul.