WW2 Navy Aircraft Radio Transmitter Type CW-52063 Model GF-12

[P-59A]

I found this WW2 US Navy aircraft radio transmitter at the swap meet this week end. It's a Type CW-52063 A , Model GF-12. It was made in 1941. I am not up on Navy items. If anyone has info on this please let me know what you know. Thanks!

[Bob Hudson]

The GF 12 set was produced beginning in 1941 and was used with a  companion receiver the RU-17.

 

These are similar in form and function to the later ARC aircraft radio sets. As a kid, I was a licensed ham radio operator and for a time my only transmitter was a surplus aircraft transmitter very similar to this - they weren't much for range on the ground and I seem to recall that while we could get these transmitters cheaply, we needed to fabricate a power supply to replicate the 12 or 24 volt aircraft systems.  

 

Yours is a great piece of history: I'd say it was for certain used in a WWII Navy aircraft.

[P-59A]

Thanks Bob!

[Bob Hudson]

Just noticed how informative the data plates are. The military used the words "radio sets" to describe a system made by connecting together a transmitter, receiver, power supplies, etc. The one data plate  is a good inventory of what units of equipment were assembled to create an aircraft radio set. I used next generation of transmitters and I know they were very modular so they could easily be removed and replaced with a working unit. The broken unit would then be worked on in the hanger or whatever.

[P-59A]

Bob, All of those data tags are a Navy thing. I have never seen USAAF radio tagged up like that. Also the blue data tags are early in the war. By late war they were mostly the AN marked items and those were not as tagged up as this.

[SNJ2549]

Any interest in selling this radio ? I am restoring a Navy SNJ-2 and need this exact one 

[P-59A]

SNJ, I traded that radio for this trailer. PM me. The guy I traded with was a Naval aviation mechanic and is looking for things. Maybe you have something he would like better.