I know it’s completely different but I got an entire rudder off an F-15C! My buddy owns and runs an aircraft boneyard in St. Louis Missouri and occasionally he’ll give me various parts and skin pieces to keep
That’s cool! In Tucson, pre-9/11, there was seemingly an airplane/military surplus store on every corner around DMAFB. Sadly now all gone, but I still remember all the Piasecki flying banana helicopters just hanging out, for sale.
**TLDR: The seat belt "shoulder harness take up" in the pic is from between 1945 and 1955.**
Does that help?
I looked up a few of the patent numbers on the label. One is from 1945, so was built after that date. [https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/db/82/97/700539272d3da3/US2480335.pdf](https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/db/82/97/700539272d3da3/US2480335.pdf)
One part was a 1935 patent. At the time, that patent would have lasted either 17 or 20 years. Meaning that patent would be expired and void, by either 1953 or 1955.
Is the metal a light aluminium or a heavier steel? At first I thought it looked like the sort of armoured seats some British WW2 aircraft had for pilots. Hard to tell from the photos.
My best (uninformed) guess would be a military transport or bomber from that period, possibly a flight engineer's seat.
I can’t tell you what plane this seat is from, but it definitely looks like a flight deck seat to me. The space in the middle of the bottom is meant for the seatbelt to come up between your legs. Plus, flightdeck seats have more adjustment levers than a standard airplane seat.
In a modern seat a cushion would be attached to the frame and a cover glued down over the cushion and frame. This one doesn’t look like it has any cushion/cover remnants on it though, so it’s either been cleaned really well or it’s a no frills kind of a seat.
Source: I was an airplane seating mechanic/upholsterer for over a decade.
Likely WW2 vintage. It has a stick slot in the middle of the front edge, which tends to indicate a pilot seat. I don't think a fighter would need a folding feature.
Probably USAAF and not Navy, due to green paint.
I'd say it's out of a bomber or cargo plane.
I don't think so. The "Inbox" is still in the way. And I can't think of any aircraft with a yoke that needed a crotch slot. It doesn't seem to be for a 5th harness belt, either. Maybe just for easier access to the inbox?
Seems like it's some sort of folding seat like the jump seats for the flight attendants or extra crew.
This is the ***ALL NEW*** Frontier seat that allowed for Frontier to squeeze 3 more rows into each aircraft so 18 more passengers!
This allows us to pass the savings on to our customers. We don’t care at all about our customers and would never dream about passing any savings on to our customers and of course will just give all executives more 7-figure bonuses and high-fives but we could lower prices if hell froze over.
Most WW2 crew seats have a "bucket" seat, where the bucket holds your parachute securely, and you sit on the chute instead of a cushion. This one is flat, so you'd slide around.
That is a relic of the ass blaster 5000 livery. Limited edition only flown twice over Pakistani airlines in the early 1940s. Very rare. Impressed that you have a picture of it.
shoulder harness, make-up
American seating co. Grand Rapids, US, Mich(igan)
Spec. AN-R-29(2)
I think it's a WWII warplane seat,(Probably retrieved from a warplane that was bailed out, given that there are some damage on that)
I would assume that green thing on the seat at second paint is green paint, so fighter/reconnaissance is my guess
That part is a seatbelt take up reel. Part number family 0-4600 is used on many different planes - [link](https://seatbeltharness.com/hawker_beechcraft_american_seating_co_shoulder_harness_seat_belt_take_up_reel.html)
Is for one 0-4600-463 used for a Hawker Beechcraft…
Some of those name plates have “property of the US government “ printed, but this one doesn’t.
No actually
Did some deep research, turns out it's not only HB to manufacture them, Textron also did
But, it's not from ww2 (That's for sure) since the earliest manufacture date I found is 1964
Thought this seat was pretty unique due to the addition of 3 trays underneath. Would this be a flight engineers seat perhaps? Trying to ID for a friend on Discord. Thanks.
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