That's one of the points, you can tell the mfg. Doh!

"Thomas Schoene" wrote in message
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Nice Again wrote:
F fighter
8 eighth model
F Grumman

This has always seemed harder to me than the Air Force/unified system

F Fighter
16 16th type since 1962

Under the Navy designation system, the Hornet would have changed
designations from F5D to F3B (I think) when Boeing bought out McDonnell
Douglas. You'd have had nearly identical aircraft with two different
designations, probably in the same squadrons. Seems rather nonsensical.

(The same system had wartime Corsairs as either F4Us or FGs depending on
who
built them.)


"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Nice Again" wrote in message
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And the 'easy' way of identification was lost forever!


Eh?

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