RF-101A的序號漆法

 有網友問到桃園中正航科館那架RF -101A的序號漆成0-41505對不對?

我從序號迷Joe Baugher的網站找到以下解釋，請參閱:

http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/usafserials.html

In the 1950s, many airplanes left over from the World War II era were still in service, exceeding their expected service lives of less than 10 years. In order to avoid confusion with later aircraft given the same tail number, these older aircraft had the prefix 0 and a dash added in front of the tail number to indicate that they were over 10 years old. It was hoped that this would avoid confusion caused by duplication of tail numbers between two aircraft built over ten years apart. However, this was not always done, and it was not always possible uniquely to identify an aircraft by a knowledge of its tail number. This practice was eventually discontinued when people started refering to the 0 as being an Oh, standing for Obsolete.