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RCA Serial Number Lookup: Historical GE-Made Appliances

Check the documented older GE-produced RCA appliance date chart while preserving its 2002 production cutoff.

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Check a documented system

What’s on the rating plate?

Historical GE-manufactured RCA appliances covered by the dedicated 1989–2002 chart; unrelated RCA electronics and current licensees are excluded.

Copy the full appliance serial and separate model. The leading two letters can encode month/year on the documented older GE-made family; do not reuse modern GE cycles for a later RCA-licensed product.

Checks ENERGY STAR model records and searches manuals separately from the serial. Certification records do not establish this unit’s manufacture date.

The model is a separate label field. A few exactly verified GE model families can narrow repeating years using GE’s production windows; other models keep all supported date candidates.

Confirm your equipment and numbering system

Choose a system only when it matches the product family and its documentation. A purchase year or a manual’s publication date does not establish a manufacturing date.

Explore a sourced example:

Choose the equipment family

RCA serial numbers by device type

Use the complete equipment label, its separate model number and the documented product family. A repeating date code does not establish the model, purchase date, installation date or warranty entitlement.

Compare the source examples

Source examples and repeating date codes.

The serial-only check retains every supported year. The source-context check also enters the photographed model and the decade identified by the source. Those are separate clues: neither the model nor the source’s chosen year is uniquely encoded in these serials.

RCA appliance date-prefix explanation

GA · The manufacturer illustrates April 1989 or 2001. The code repeats; this date is separate example context.

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Where to find the numbers.

GE’s RCA chart is for historical GE-produced RCA major appliances; GE says that production ended in 2002. It does not establish a code for modern RCA-licensed appliances, televisions, radios or other electronics. Use the actual model to find a matching older appliance label guide.

Choose your product type to see its label locations. An identification example may illustrate the fields without containing a valid date code.

Historical GE-made appliances (3)

Historical GE-produced RCA appliance date fields

Look for
Model number and serial number
Label location
Locate the complete unit rating plate using the appliance’s own model manual. The RCA date article identifies serial fields but does not establish one physical location for all RCA appliances.
Format / what to enter
Copy the serial, not the model. The documented date prefix uses two letters; a model cannot be recovered from those two letters.

The dedicated RCA chart ends in 2002. Modern licensed RCA products and electronics require their own manufacturer support.

GE official historical RCA chart and pre-2003 scope ↗

Confirmed older GE-built RCA refrigerators

Look for
Model number and serial number
Label location
As a conditional GE-built locator aid, compare the fresh-food walls, crisper area and lower front frame with GE’s guide for the actual refrigerator style.
Format / what to enter
Copy the complete model and serial from their separate label fields.

Only use these possible GE locations once the RCA unit is confirmed as the historical GE-produced family; this is not a model-specific RCA label-location guarantee.

GE official older refrigerator label guide ↗

Confirmed older GE-built RCA cooking appliances

Look for
Model number and serial number
Label location
Use GE’s older cooking guide for the matching range, wall oven or cooktop design; possible frame, cooktop and drawer positions vary by style.
Format / what to enter
Copy the complete model and serial from their separate label fields.

Confirm the historical GE manufacturer and actual model. GE’s 2002 production cutoff is preserved; no current RCA product is dated from a reused GE year code.

GE official older cooking-product label guide ↗

Scope matters

Supported formats
and historical limits.

  • Modern RCA-licensed appliances, televisions, radios and electronics are not covered.
  • Never assign 2013 or 2025 to an old GE-produced RCA serial: GE says its RCA appliance production ended in 2002.
  • Two-letter date prefixes such as GA are shared by many units. Select the dedicated prefix option explicitly; a prefix does not replace the complete serial or model.
  • A separately entered, exactly verified model can provide production-window context. It does not turn the serial into a model or guarantee the manufacture date of every engineering revision.

Research reviewed October 16, 2026. This independent tool applies published rules and retains unresolved years and model candidates.

Source references

GE-produced RCA appliances (historical 1989–2002 chart)

Historical RCA appliances made by GE, not current RCA-licensed appliances, electronics or TVs.

GE says its RCA appliance production ended in 2002. Do not extend the repeating chart beyond 2002 or apply it to unrelated RCA licensees.

RCA two-letter date prefix only (confirm system)

Only the explicitly selected, confirmed RCA appliance date-prefix system. This is not a complete serial lookup.

The manufacturer uses two-letter examples such as GA to explain repeating manufacture dates. Preserve all literal chart years; a two-letter prefix is shared by many units and cannot establish a unique product, full model, factory or warranty. The historical GE-produced RCA chart ends in 2002; unrelated newer RCA licensees are excluded.

Choose this option only when entering the two leading date letters from a confirmed RCA appliance label. These letters are a partial date prefix, not the unique serial or a model identifier.

Reading your result

RCA 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.