W.S. No. 19 Aerial Socket Type 386

[David Dunlop]

Thanks, Bruce. I suspected when I researched Vernons that the sockets might not be 19-Set after all. Do you have any idea what airborne radar the RAF might have been using in 1943?

[Bruce MacMillan]

AI (airborne intercept) and ASV (anti-surface vessel) radars developed in 1939. These were in use and upgraded until 1945.

There's a bit of history here:
http://www.pyetelecomhistory.org/pro...ms_1939_-_1946

and more info here under Airforce/RAF&RCAF/airborne search & gunlaying
http://www.qsl.net/pe1ngz/signalscollection.html