[ARC5] ATA Replacement Items (was: Scarce...)

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Tauson" <wh7hg.hi at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Scarce Items


> There were late run ARA/ATA pieces made to fill replacement roles even
> though the AN/ARC-5 was already in production.  The idea, I believe,
> was to install the later systems in new construction aircraft and
> maintain the older systems in existing aircraft rather than replace
> them.  I have a transmitter (52232, I think - I'd have to pull it out
> to check) that is definitely late production since it has front panel
> details like those used in the AN/ARC-5 sets.

I also have one of these transmitters.  The chassis was obviously
taken from the AN/ARC-5 production stock, and the ATA
circuit installed.   Though the confirming records are not 
likely to ever again see daylight  (unless one of us gets 
a research grant that will support him and his family
in Washington for six months),  the "replacement"
theory makes sense and fits the evidence.
The Smith doesn't loan out archived documents, does it?

Regards,
David S.