[R-390] NASA R-390A

[Barry Williams]

Cecil,

That would be a good thing to have info on. What we need are the DA Form 
2408-9's. These are the Equipment Usage Reports. That has the 
manufacturer, date of manufacture, transfers, etc. I can't remember that 
far back with nitpicking forms even though I probably wrote on thousands 
of those, but I think there were blue and red copies if you were lucky 
enough to have them at the unit level. They were filled out at the 
factory where the white copy was the current logbook copy. These 
original copies were kept somewhere for sure.


Barry


> Congratulations Steve...you own a piece of History.  Better documented than 
> most that are out there.  Wish I knew where mine served.  When I was doing 
> R1051's some had the ships name written on the sides of the chassis or 
> cabinets.  Haven't found any of my R-390A's marked in any way that would 
> give a clue as to where they served.
>
> It's too bad there is not a Military inventory some where that kept track of 
> where each radio was assigned and how it was disposed of.  That type info is 
> available on aircraft in the military inventory and I'm guessing it was also 
> tracked somewhere on the radio assets as well...  We just don't have access 
> to it..
>
> Cecil...
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>         I've just become a proud owner of an ex NASA R-390A. This is not a 
>> Manson Labs model but it has a label above the tag with "NASA This is the 
>> property of the Goddard Space Flight Centre" and the a number. It was used 
>> at the tracking centre at Canberra Aust.
>>                                         Steve.
>>