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  • #16
    Hi,

    Except if you take yourself the prop out of the plane, or you have its "book" and the prop number is written in it, it is not possible to know from which one the prop came. Props are like tires on cars and are changed when necessary, except that on aircraft all repairs are filed and the spare parts numbers are memorised. Il is not even sure your prop has been fitted on a plane: they are not rare parts and many propellers on the market are spare parts never used, because it is easier to find a propeller in a no more usefull stock than to take it out of a plane.

    And yes, you can see MS-500 with 10 bolts propeller. For example, two pictures on this page show one of them:
    http://avions-de-la-guerre-d-algerie...-41640183.html
    The last one ( http://img.over-blog.com/600x423/1/9..._Aout_1955.jpg ) where you can even see the shape of the Merville decal and that the blade tips have a lighter colour (French habit is yellow),
    And the same on the third picture ( http://a133.idata.over-blog.com/600x...ntier2-338.jpg ) but less clear.
    You have to copy and paste the pics to enlarge them (and have the second lighten). They are not very clear, but the ten bolts are a sure fact and those "amateur" pics are taken "in the fields", so you can be sure they are true ones and relatively well dated.

    Regards,
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