> Mick,
> In your response to my Jasta 2 question, you cited their earliest aircraft,
> two Fokker D-IIIs and one Albatros D-1. You listed the number of the D-1 as
> [426/16] and the number of the plane Boelcke scored his 20th victory in as
> [325/16].
> All of my sources say the plane he flew was a Fokker D-III.
Not an EIII, by any chance?
> What did those numbers refer to again? Was the first number the production
> unit number (i.e. machine #325 off the assembly line) and the second number
> was the "model" number (i.e. type number 16 in Fokker's rekoning)? How does
> that go again?
The secon number [i.e. /x] was the year of production, and that system
was continued by all [German] aircraft manufacturers in one form or another
until the end of the war.
Cheers,
Mick.
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