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I was curious about the same thing, but I wanted to know what rolled off the assembly line that day.

As others have confirmed the serial # starts with the fiscal year the aircraft was ordered.

As for "rolled off the assembly line" I think the closest you will get to that is the day the aircraft was accepted by the service from the mfgr. IIRC this is also called the DD-250 date, named after the DD-250 form that is associated with the delivery and acceptance.

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You guys could also run your birthday as a Julian date. My BD is 4/12/55 so as posted above 55-0412 but April 12th is also Julian day 102 or 103 in a leap year so 55-0102, 55-0103 would also be valid # for my birthday

http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/partners/fepp/julian-calendar.pdf

Oh, my numbers:

USAF Sn

55-102 B-52D destroyed by fire on the ground

55-103 B-52D destroyed after aborted takeoff

55-412 No history in a block of WB-66D s

BUNO

41255 no history a block of RN Helcasts

55412 no history in a block of FM-2 Wildcats

I don't understand this. What would 8-27-76 be for this?

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I'm a Herky Bird!

64-0518 (c/n 382-4002) converted to MC-130E. To AMARC as CF0529 Apr 16, 2007. Still on AMARC inventory Jan 15, 2008.

However Mandie (63-0913) is a Missile..

63-0229/7309 Martin AGM-12 Bullpup missiles

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I don't understand this. What would 8-27-76 be for this?

The Julian day is the ordinal number of the day in the year. Jan 1 is day 1, Feb 1, is 32, Mar 1 is 60 for non-leap years and 61 for leap years. So, Aug 27, 1976 would be day 240.

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I don't understand where you guys are searching.

I would be 79-0813

But idk where to look for that.

Hamm,

That's pretty close to mine, so I think you would be an a-10 also. I just googled usaf buno numbers, and the site I used was the third or fourth down.

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Sadly it seems your 'birthday plane' is an AGM-45 Shrike missile :D/

So is mine... :(

From the National Geographic website, "It might look like a lightweight, but the shrike is a stone-cold killer." I am not a stone cold killer and not by any stretch of anyone's imagination am I a lightweight!

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I don't understand this. What would 8-27-76 be for this?

Jimz66 I'd break it down like this year month day so a 76-0827 a Shrike Missile or 76-827 Throw in the Julian and you'd have 76-240 another Shrike Missile. BUT you just missed out on being the B-1A!

Navy BuNo's can be straight date or reversed so 82776 an F4U-1D corsair or flipped year first 76827 which would have been the 8th J2M Mars built!

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