WWII Part - Vintage Warbird Aircraft 5 Port Selector Valve B301 FRA 5527 C279 x3 For Sale

WWII Part - Vintage Warbird Aircraft 5 Port Selector Valve B301 FRA 5527 C279 x3Here\'s a grouping of three WWII era aircraft selector valves that have been a 35-year mystery to me as to what they came off of and what aircraft they are intended for. Hopefully the buyer will be kind enough to share identification so I can go to my grave not wondering.
The valve bodies have no data plates but there is some information as cast:
C27962A581842-H
B301ASSEM 6 2-A58025FRA 5527
There are multiple little inspection stamps all over these. What we have here are 5 port valves. Small valves at that - appears to be 3/8 line sized throughout. They appear to have been bulkhead mounted and the selector end has the \"fork\" assembly that clearly a control rod would have fitted in to so that these valves could be cycled to a particular opening remotely, presumably in the cockpit or cabin area by flight crews. I\'d originally thought them to be fuel selector valves, but boy, the port sizes as so small. That led to the next thought that they might be low pressure hydraulic selectors (>1500 PSI) for perhaps something requiring not much volume - but what? Again, mystery pieces here.
All appear to be WWII vintage. Some early brass plugs, brass safety wire with lead tab seal and nice chromate paint. I suspect they were from a Navy airfraft, as we got them decades ago from a business that bought aircraft surplus from what was the scrap operaiton at Litchfield NAF, Goodyear AZ in the late 1950s. Litchfield was the site of a rather massive US Navy holding and reclamation yard where everything from training aircraft to heavy bombers from WWII and into the early 1950s were scrapped. FRA is probably a manufacturer identifier but I don\'t know who that is.
The salvage teams usually farmed the airframes of useable components before the wings and fuselages were drawn and quartered and fed into the furnace. The Navy sold off all kinds of aero surplus in large lots out of this facility into the early 1960s. Most of the components - electrical, hydraulic, instrumentation, plastic, glass, armor and assorted airframe - were offered up for pennies on the dollar.
I always suspected these came from something small like a Stearman, N3N-3 or maybe a Twin Beech. But having seen similar fuel and hydraulic selector valves in these airframes I don\'t recall a direct match or similarity.
I think we ended up with about 30 of these as stored outside years ago in a wire basket. None of the ports were capped so these got dirt in them, rain in them, and maybe a desert bug or two as well. They were not cared for, and consequently these aren\'t perfect and need OH.
Comes in a lot of three. And again, if you can ID these, please let us know. Would like to close this chapter of \"aviation mysteries\" once and for all.
What you see in the picture series is what you get. Well, not the TBM or the aluminum ingots in the last photo. Ships least expensive via FedEx Ground or USPS Ground Advantage unless you request otherwise. Questions? Please ask seller. And thanks for looking!