[Milsurplus] Updated Aircraft Receiver??

[scottjohnson1 at cox.net]

Before the tan color, they used a greyish olive wrinkle.  This was used until the early sixties, I have an RV-11 that has a FAA contract that is still this green color, the colr change does roughly coincide with the CAA to FAA change.

Scott
---- D C *Mac* Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com> wrote: 
> I sort of doubt that it was FAA.  FAA stuff had
> a rather peculiar pinkish tan color.  I don't know
> why that color was chosen.  Our radio shop here
> at the depot overhaul shop stopped service on
> the last of the radio equipment painted that
> way late in 2005.
> 
> Mac - K2GKK/5
> 
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "gl4d21a at juno.com" <gl4d21a at juno.com>
> To: arc5 at ix.netcom.com
> CC: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Updated Aircraft Receiver??
> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:22:00 GMT
> 
> I looked at his other offerings.  Looks like he found an old control
> tower which was abandoned about 1950.  Mac, or anyone know how to
> read CAA contract dates?  Or maybe FAA Ok City is cleaning out the
> really deep basement?
> 
> 73,
> George
> W5VPQ
> 
> 
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