Not much info on this so I've tried to piece it together from fragments. Any additional input very welcome.
Shorts S.312 Tucano construction numbers don't start with the traditional 'SH' for Shorts-Harland. Instead they were built by Shorlac, Shorts Light Aircraft, a subsidiary created in 1979 for the purpose of license-building the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk in the old MU building at Sydenham.
The advantage of using Shorlac for the Tucano was that it had its own labour & union agreements.
Shorts had sales rights in 'traditionally RAF-orientated nations' whilst EMBRAER reserved South America and some other named states. The rest of the World was free competition between the two.
The prototype S.312-standard aircraft, PP-ZTC / G-14-007 / G-BTUC, was built by EMBRAER as EMB-312G cn 312007 and transferred to Shorts. Later upgraded with the production-standard -12B engine provided by Garrett in mid-1986, from a pre-certification batch. One engine also went to EMBRAER which continued to tinker with the Garrett-engined Tucano until the early 1990s.
The first ten Tucanos delivered to the RAF were also built by EMBRAER but completed in Belfast, being given Shorlac cns starting thusly:
ZF135 S001/T1
The S_ element indicated the incrementing Shorlac sequence, the second element T_ indicated the delivery in the T-contract ( RAF ) whilst Kuwait and Kenya were in the E-contract ( Export? ) starting with S033 and scattered through the sequence.
I don't have a full list of cns yet. Update: thanks to Mr Gadwall I do now, and have corrected the previous supposition regarding S033. It was not the destroyed airframe but the first export, S033/E1. Subsequently crashed off Rathlin Island in February 1990 on stores-separation trials, killing Shorts test pilot Allan Deacon.
http://www.ukserials.com/prodlists.php?type=1107From that list S045 appears to have been the bomb-damaged airframe, not delivered to the RAF.
