Allied Air ducted HVAC using the manufacturer's ten-character system since January 1993
The first two digits identify the documented plant reference; digits 3–4 encode year and the fifth character gives month. Date is manufacture, not installation or warranty expiry.
Allied Air historical month/year/factory suffix
Allied Air historical units produced 1978–1992
Manufacturer chart gives sequence-code letter(s), five sequence digits, month letter, year code and final factory letter. No precise day or complete model is encoded.
Reading your result
AirEase lookup questions
Why does the year code match more than one year?
Some systems reuse letters or only encode the last one or two year digits. Every supported interpretation is retained. A decade supplied from reliable records can narrow the reading; the tool does not automatically pick the newest year.
Does the serial identify my exact model?
Usually the model is a separate plate field. Where published serial ranges actually identify a model, the result shows model candidates and links to their manuals. Overlapping ranges remain ambiguous.
Can I share the result?
After a lookup, the address includes the serial in a fragment beginning with #serial=. Use “Copy share link” to share the serial and selected context. Opening the link runs the same lookup. The fragment is not a query-string result page.