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Sep 5, 2008 | 10:29 PM

cykoticford

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Aeronautical radio

my buddy has a 77 f-150 and his am/fm ford radio says Aeronautical on the top lens does anyone know what that was about? the radio looks identical to my 78 radio but does not say Aeronautical on it.

Sep 6, 2008 | 01:14 AM

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my buddy has a 77 f-150 and his am/fm ford radio says Aeronautical on the top lens does anyone know what that was about? the radio looks identical to my 78 radio but does not say Aeronautical on it.

That's not a Ford item unless Ford teamed up with NASA in '77 which i highly doubt. lol

Sep 6, 2008 | 07:58 AM

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my buddy has a 77 f-150 and his am/fm ford radio says Aeronautical on the top lens does anyone know what that was about? the radio looks identical to my 78 radio but does not say Aeronautical on it.

My 77 F150 had the same type of radio in it when bought it 2-3 years ago, but was not original to the truck. I posted a question about it on this forum quite a while back w/ pictures and was told the radio came out of a Ford car, but I can't remember which car(s). The original radio was just an AM radio with a single dash speaker from the factory.

Sep 6, 2008 | 10:28 AM

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I'm pretty sure that the Aeronautical radios were available in trucks. I used to have a 1978 F150 Lariat that still had the original AM/FM radio in it when I bought it, and it was an Aeronautical Ford radio.

Sep 6, 2008 | 11:42 AM

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Doesn't it actually say "Aeroneutronics", which I belive was a Ford brand type name.

Sep 6, 2008 | 01:24 PM

cykoticford

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yea it does say Aeroneutronics and a ford oval right after

Sep 6, 2008 | 02:47 PM

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go to ford dot com and request a build sheet by clicking "contact us" and give them your mailing address and VIN number of the truck aloing with all the door tag info....the build sheet will say what radio it came with...