Defence has confirmed that the serial prefix ‘A35’ has been assigned to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning when it enters RAAF service from 2014.
“The serial number blocks assigned to the F-35 are A35-001 and following, with the final number to be determined by future government acquisition decisions,” a Department of Defence spokesperson has confirmed to Australian Aviation.
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Components for the RAAF’s first F-35 JSF, the future A35-001, dubbed AU-1 by Lockheed Martin, are now under construction. Rollout of the jet is planned for late 2013.
Further, the Alenia C-27J Spartan has been assigned the A34 serial block, with aircraft to be numbered A34-001 through to A34-010.
The Navy’s forthcoming MH-60R ‘Romeo’ Seahawk helicopters have been assigned the ‘N48’ serial range.
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“The serial number blocks that have been assigned to the MH-60R are N48-001 to N48-024.”
Looking forward to see this aircraft to fly, at avalon airshow in 2015 hopefully, fingers cross
John N
says:
A35 seems appropriate, but it does appear to be out of sequence in “A” Serial numbering allocation.
But I suppose that since the Government signed up as a systems development partner way back in 2002 they must have reserved the “unallocated” A35 number at that time.
As a side note for those interested in ADF’s serial numbering, check out this site:
The ADF Serials site is a great reference point for anyone wanting to know more about the allocation of numbering, (by the way, we are up to the 3rd series of A numbering), but also a good place to have a look at not only series of aircraft but also the fate of”indvidual” aircraft.
For example, those interested in one of our recent retirements, the F111 (see Third Series, A-8), it has a very good list of the fate of each aircraft, lost, scrapped, saved for museum, stored at AMARC, etc.
At the bottom of the F111 page is also a great series of photo, especially photos of the aircraft stored at Amberley prior to disposal.
Anyway, it a great site, recommend that you have a good look!!!
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William
says:Looking forward to see this aircraft to fly, at avalon airshow in 2015 hopefully, fingers cross
John N
says:A35 seems appropriate, but it does appear to be out of sequence in “A” Serial numbering allocation.
But I suppose that since the Government signed up as a systems development partner way back in 2002 they must have reserved the “unallocated” A35 number at that time.
As a side note for those interested in ADF’s serial numbering, check out this site:
http://www.adf-serials.com/
The ADF Serials site is a great reference point for anyone wanting to know more about the allocation of numbering, (by the way, we are up to the 3rd series of A numbering), but also a good place to have a look at not only series of aircraft but also the fate of”indvidual” aircraft.
For example, those interested in one of our recent retirements, the F111 (see Third Series, A-8), it has a very good list of the fate of each aircraft, lost, scrapped, saved for museum, stored at AMARC, etc.
At the bottom of the F111 page is also a great series of photo, especially photos of the aircraft stored at Amberley prior to disposal.
Anyway, it a great site, recommend that you have a good look!!!
Cheers,
John
Peter
says:@ John N
I agree that the ADF Serials is a great website. I go their all time to check for high resolution photos etc.