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Detail of one of the wiring bundles in the electrical connector bracket.

The wiring bundles bear various identifying wraps; the most informative (to me at least) is the wrap which contains the missile's serial number. Here we see that the serial number is "CC-2031" (the "CC" referring to "Chrysler Corporation", whose missile division manufactured Redstone missiles; the Redstone Arsenal also manufactured Redstones, using the prefix "RS").

It seems odd that the center unit and tail unit both seem to be from CC-2007, but the aft unit is from CC-2031.

Apparently, after the missile system was decommissioned, there was little effort made to keep components from individual missiles together as a unit. The Kansas Cosmosphere has a combined aft unit and warhead section; the warhead section is from CC-2013, while the aft unit is from CC-2025.

 
Missile serial number, CC-2031, on electrical connector in Redstone Aft Unit skirt section at Air Zoo
Time picture taken Sun May 18 11:57:06 2014
Location picture taken East Campus
Air Zoo
Portage, MI
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