top scoring individual aircraft (not type)

Hardly... try Galland's BF109, or any of those Japanese guy's Zekes, Franks, and Oscars. Hell, even Bong's p-38

Ah, but can you demonstrate that Galland or Bong got every victory on
the same aircraft? (Not type, remember. Aircraft.)

As for the Japanese, even a charitable cuss like me couldn't credit
them with any specific number of victories. Over Burma, I found that
JAAF overclaiming by 400 percent. In the first year of the year, John
Lundstrom found the JNAF overclaiming by 900 percent. Let's keep the
discussion to air forces that don't routinely overclaim by more than
200 percent

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Has there ever been any research into the top scoring individual aircraft
(not type) of any era? Presume it would be WWII.

AL

From: "old hoodoo"

It would seem that the only confirmed example offered is the Brewster flown by
Hans Wind which was Finnish Air Force serial number BW 393 which in my source
is credited with 41 victories. Another Brewster, BW 364 is credited with 36.

It is possible that one of the German aces has more kills scored on an
indvidual aircraft but I have yet to see any research confirming confirmed
claims against a specific werke number. Didn't one of the books about Hartmann
include excerpts from some of his logbooks? Might be a good place to find real
data.

John Dupre'

Has there ever been any research into the top scoring individual aircraft
(not type) of any era? Presume it would be WWII.

It would seem that the only confirmed example offered is the Brewster flown by
Hans Wind which was Finnish Air Force serial number BW 393 which in my source
is credited with 41 victories. Another Brewster, BW 364 is credited with 36.

Quote from my post at Dan Ford's Brewster-site:

Brewster (Finnish serial) - number of aerial victories - total hours
flown - pilots and their personal score with the airframe

BW-352 - 18 kills
BW-353 - 20 - 562h 45 min
BW-357 - 16 - 802h
BW-364 - 36 - Ilmari Juutilainen 28
BW-366 - 23 - Jorma Karhunen 14
BW-384 - 18 - 729h 05 min
BW-393 - 41 - Eino Luukkanen 7, Hans Wind 26

jok

"old hoodoo" wrote:

Has there ever been any research into the top scoring individual aircraft
(not type) of any era? Presume it would be WWII.

I would start with Germans and Russians. It is bound to be one of those.

-- Charlie Springer