[WWI] Triplanes and Serials

[Dave Calhoun]

Hi Mike,
I have a partial decal sheet from Koster Aero Enterprises from their 1/48 scale Sopwith Triplane issued in the 1980's (before the Eduard kit ever was released) and used it to "accurize" my Aurora Sopwith triplane around 1990 or so.  Unfortunately I don't have the instruction sheet which listed all of the serial #'s but the following white serial#'s are included.  N5492, N5487, N5483, N5482, N6307, N5474, N 5493.  it also has 1 set of letters that say "Black and all of the others Maria", Prince" Roger", Death" and Sheep". Which allows you to build 1 Black_____ plane.  But the original instructions listed which serial # went to which name, unfortunately I do not have this sheet any longer. If anyone else has this they may be able to help you out.
Hope this helps,
Dave 
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For Rob and all who are interested, Evan Hadingham's The Fighting Triplanes, p. 48, has the following:

    N5483 "Black Roger"        Ellis Reid
    N6307 "Black Death"        John Sharman
    N5487 "Black Prince"       William Alexander
    N5492 "Black Maria"        Raymond Collishaw
    (?)      "Black Sheep"       Gerry Nash

Wouldn't it be nice if someone produced the names and serials so one could recreate the Black Flight?  IIRC, the names were in white below and in front of the left cockpit coaming and were about 4" high (?).

Anyone have Black Sheep's serial and any other data that might be missing above?

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