RADIO CALL PLAQUE

[ram957]

I know that an Aircraft's Radio Call number (posted on the dash in the cockpit) is usually the planes serial number minus the first digit…For example 42-7108 would be 27108. This one has me stumped, Call Sign 504810…..I can't figure it out..any help is appreciated…

 

[fubar57]

Anything on the back?

 

[fubar57]

RADIO CALL NUMBER

I'm looking for help identifying the Aircraft Serial Number for Radio Call 504810..I'm a bit stumped by this one...Thanks

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Hah....just noticed this is probably you 8 years ago

 

[ram957]

Anything on the back?

 

[mjfur]

Some possibilities.

45-4810/45-04810 (Sometimes a leading zero was added.)
45-4401/5200 Piper L-4J Grasshopper
4810 (MSN 13550) 3706th Base Unit, Sheppard, TX; damaged taxying at Sheppard 28Mar46;
registered N5721N, cancelled 12Oct07; substantially damaged 29Jan79 when the aircraft
was taxied into a hole covered with drifted snow. On August 1, 2007 the aircraft crashed
shortly after taking off from a private field in Andersonville, Georgia. The pilot and one
passenger received serious injuries, and the airplane incurred substantial damage. Several
witnesses stated that the pilot was giving airplane rides to construction workers, who had
been working on his house. The witnesses said that the pilot was taking off and landing on
his private landing strip, while giving the airplane rides, and he had given rides to four workers.
In the process of giving the fifth and final airplane ride, during initial climb after takeoff,
the airplane's engine ceased operating. The witnesses said that they observed the airplane
as it turned about 180 degrees in the direction of the runway from where it had just departed,
but it descended quickly and impacted the ground in a level attitude.

42-7108
42-7066/7122 Ford B-24E-10-FO Liberator
7108 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946

BuNo. 27108
26427/27851 North American SNJ-4 Texan

 

[SaparotRob]

Some possibilities.

45-4810/45-04810 (Sometimes a leading zero was added.)
45-4401/5200 Piper L-4J Grasshopper
4810 (MSN 13550) 3706th Base Unit, Sheppard, TX; damaged taxying at Sheppard 28Mar46;
registered N5721N, cancelled 12Oct07; substantially damaged 29Jan79 when the aircraft
was taxied into a hole covered with drifted snow. On August 1, 2007 the aircraft crashed
shortly after taking off from a private field in Andersonville, Georgia. The pilot and one
passenger received serious injuries, and the airplane incurred substantial damage. Several
witnesses stated that the pilot was giving airplane rides to construction workers, who had
been working on his house. The witnesses said that the pilot was taking off and landing on
his private landing strip, while giving the airplane rides, and he had given rides to four workers.
In the process of giving the fifth and final airplane ride, during initial climb after takeoff,
the airplane's engine ceased operating. The witnesses said that they observed the airplane
as it turned about 180 degrees in the direction of the runway from where it had just departed,
but it descended quickly and impacted the ground in a level attitude.

42-7108
42-7066/7122 Ford B-24E-10-FO Liberator
7108 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946

BuNo. 27108
26427/27851 North American SNJ-4 Texan

Nice sleuthing.