[Milsurplus] Msg in a radio

[Mike Morrow]

The most direct aircraft registration discovery process begins by entering

1181V

in the FAA registration lookup site

  https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberInquiry?

There's a fair amount of info there for that 1945 aircraft.

Mike / KK5F

-----Original Message-----
>From: Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com>
>Sent: Dec 31, 2020 8:34 PM
>To: "milsurplus at mailman.qth.net" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Msg in a radio
>
>Great story, Charlie !
>BTW, re civilian aircraft radios, if anyone has a junker 'Motorola Airboy Senior', I could use a cabinet. I have one with a rather crude sheet metal garage built cabinet
>that was to hold the radio and batteries. About a 1 watt radio on 3035 kHz. Or, I would like to know if the 'Airboy' LF receiver-only cabinet would fit this radio. 
>Thanks to Dave Stinson's post some years back about using such radios on 80 meters, I became more enthusiastic about them.
>-Hue Miller
>
>>Subject: [Milsurplus] Msg in a radio
>
>My friend Brian, KN4R finds old tube type private aircraft aviation radios and sends me links to them, and many times I end up buying them,  I think he is trying to drain my bank account.  I bought  a Bendix Flightweight transmitter he put me on the trail of, and I bought it, and  restored it to operation as I do all my finds.  Inside of it was written in pencil an aircraft ID,  N1181V, and a signature of a radio tech who had checked the crystal freq in it.  Well, thanks to the ability of search engines to find just about anything, I located the plane, and the owner.  On a long shot, since the information was quite old, put the owners name in the search engine and got an address, and wrote a letter in the blind and sent it to Washington state.  I put my email in the letter, and low and behold I got an email answer back and pictures of the aircraft.  The aircraft, a Beech D17S staggerwing, was in the RAF inventory during the war, and was one of 15 brought back from England aft
>   er the war.  It was wrecked at Bradley Field, Idaho,  by Led R. Edmister of Portland OR., in or about 1958, and Victor, the current owner, he and his father bought it in 1972 and took it home on a flatbed trailer.  The father passed away, not ever getting around to restoration, but the son started it and is still at it,  and almost has it flyable again.  It is half metal, half fabric, so a full complement of aircraft airframe skills needed there. He has kept me up to date on his work every since.  An old tube transmitter, an N number and a search, and a new friend made.
>
>Charlie, W4MEC in NC