Guys, some help appreciated if possible.I am working on an aviation illustration of the USAF T-34A that happens to be hanging at the USAF Museum at Wright Patterson AFB. I am looking (desparately!) for pictures of this airplane that show clearly what the right and left side markings are. There are two pics on the net, but both are quarter angle front shots that do not show the sides clearly. If anybody has a picture or two that can post here or email, it would be greatly appreciated. (Im also going to release a major update to my T-34 USAF skins as well.)This is a T-34A Mentor S/N 53-3310 bare metal with orange day gloflashing. Has side marks that read "T.D - something" I need to find out what those marks are and hope somebody has either been to the museum and recalls, or has a picture (better!)Thanks in Advance!Eric Joinerejoiner2 AT Bellsouth dot net

Have you tried searching on airliner.net? They have a lot of pictures of T-34s. Hope you get what you are looking for.:)

oh yeah. airliners.net was very helpful for my Lima Lima scheme, but with this partcular bird, no soap.ThanksEric

Hello Eric,if any mentor will do look at:http://www.airliners.net/open.file/264317/L264317.jpg&ZyXtCe=MTA1MDE5&id=264317&ViD=bigIan

Actually Ian, any Mentor wont do. Im looking for a specific one, but thanks anyway. I did find out what the side buzz numbers meant. TD was the USAF designation for the T-34 and 310 was the number based on the SN of the aircraft...so TD-310. (Pics still appreciated, but not as desparately now!)ThanksEric

EricI have a book of USAF serial numbers but only for types that would visit Europe. These should all be on the net now.Normally USAF a/c are numbered from the first of each fiscal year starting on 1st July so on that date a new one would be AF04-00001followed by ... you guessed. The 2 letter code is the air base eg HL = Hill AFB, etc. The next 3 letters may be the last 3 of the serial or if USN/USMC they are just a local sequence used in a base or squadron.Is this it?http://cgibin.rcn.com/jeremy.k/cgi-bin/usa...nt=T-34A+MentorUSAF Serial Number Search Results--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Serial Number Criteria: 310Description Criteria: T-34A MentorData last updated: Sat May 1 11:51:17 2004TAIL: 53-3306 ... 53-3395 Beech T-34A Mentor c/n G.67/156 3310 (G-71) on display at WPAFB Museum. 3313 (c/n G.74) owned by Paul Peters and flying as N34EP. 3320,3346,3350 sold to Spain. 3306 flying as N6450D 3327 flying as N34MK 3366 dropped from USAF inventory Nov 10, 1969. Now on civil registry as N4WLQED: It must be G-71!Ian

Yeah, that may be it. Interesting history. Now just to get better pictures!!!That is a very cool perl script generating that info...whats the root URL to use it in future? Very interesting in some of the sleuth work I wind up doing on old airplanes.ThanksEric

Eric,I know you've released updates for most of your T-34 skins, but I haven't seen one for your wonderful white Navy version- is anything in the works for that one?Best,Joel

I uploaded this to Avsim some days ago. Apparently it got lost in the mix. I'll reupload it.Eric

Eric,Um:http://cgibin.rcn.com/jeremy.k/serialSearch.htmltip; click to the URL, edit off each string up to the next / click and continue that till you get a button for something sensible :-)Ian

Thanks Eric, I really love that Navy version, maybe its the white canopy frame.Best,Joel