Serial Number Location

[VictorBravo]

OK, here's one I have not seen... I am getting involved with a Taylorcraft project. It's reportedly a 1946 airplane. It has the usual earmarks of post-war Taylorcrafts, such as sliding windows in the metal doors, the trim tab in the elevator, the trim crank in the cabin, metal stamped ribs, and beautiful vertically laminated spars.

The strange part is that this one does NOT have the regular door hinge tabs welded onto the fuselage door frame. This one has separate door hinges that apparently screw or bolt onto the wood former at the front of the door opening.

So the door hinges are not a permanent part of the fuselage. The serial number of the airplane is therefore not on the right upper door hinge like most T-crafts.

So where the !($*%# is the serial number if it is not on the door hinge? Which Taylorcraft models had separate door hinges?

Mr. Redpath? Mr. Barber? Mr. Mays? Mr. Peek? Any of the other grizzled old-timers with 20 T-craft restorations under their belt?

I'm gonna need to find a serial number on this airplane before I can convince the feds it is what I say it is.

[Gary Snell]

Re: Serial Number Location

Bill

Check the under panel bracket for the throttle/controls back right side.

[N96337]

Re: Serial Number Location

Yep, got one just like that here too Bill...and the number is just barely visible...ya gotta take some scotchbrite and really get just right to see it.
John

[Pearson]

Re: Serial Number Location

Bill,

I have two 1946 BC12Ds. Neither of them has the welded on door hinges.

[Ragwing nut]

Re: Serial Number Location

OK, here's one I have not seen... I am getting involved with a Taylorcraft project. It's reportedly a 1946 airplane. It has the usual earmarks of post-war Taylorcrafts, such as sliding windows in the metal doors, the trim tab in the elevator, the trim crank in the cabin, metal stamped ribs, and beautiful vertically laminated spars.

The strange part is that this one does NOT have the regular door hinge tabs welded onto the fuselage door frame. This one has separate door hinges that apparently screw or bolt onto the wood former at the front of the door opening.

So the door hinges are not a permanent part of the fuselage. The serial number of the airplane is therefore not on the right upper door hinge like most T-crafts.

So where the !($*%# is the serial number if it is not on the door hinge? Which Taylorcraft models had separate door hinges?

Mr. Redpath? Mr. Barber? Mr. Mays? Mr. Peek? Any of the other grizzled old-timers with 20 T-craft restorations under their belt?

I'm gonna need to find a serial number on this airplane before I can convince the feds it is what I say it is.

Prewar on the left upper door hinge only. Should be stamped on the seat carry through top on post wars. Right side top if memory is correct

[Forrest Barber]

Re: Serial Number Location

lots of early BC12D , ahd the ser# on door hinge they were left over from before the war. Yours should be on the throttle plate as indicated back side of course sometimes up side down. Let me know directly what it says.....

[Robert Lees]

Re: Serial Number Location

I'm led to believe that sometimes it was stamped underneath one of the gussets to which the wire frame seatbelt harness attaches.

[Forrest Barber]

Re: Serial Number Location

If so you will find a factory repair somewhere, this was done on the ships that got into the huge windstorm , and some of Mrs. Feris ships had that location , the same good old boy that did it in 1946 worked for her.