He sent a damaged P228 back to Exeter for a customer about a month a go, the lower frame had a hairline crack running from the trigger guard to the end of the slide near the muzzle. Sig replaced the frame but the serial number on the frame according to the list here is a 229 frame it begins with Axxxx. Just curious if anybody else has seen this.

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Originally posted by spunk639:
He sent a damaged P228 back to Exeter for a customer about a month a go, the lower frame had a hairline crack running from the trigger guard to the end of the slide near the muzzle. Sig replaced the frame but the serial number on the frame according to the list here is a 229 frame it begins with Axxxx. Just curious if anybody else has seen this.

Nothing weird about it. P228 frame is the same as the old P229(9) frame. In fact, the very last batch of P228s that came out of SIG NH have the AHU-, AJU-, and AKU-prefixes.

Thanks Q the slide is the exact same slide and barrel, always seen B numbers on 228's.

I always wondered why one of my 228s had a different serial number (AHU), now I know. Thanks for the education Q.

Another interesting factoid. Did you know that there are "B" prefixed serial P229s coming from factory that are floating around out there?

A few years ago, I saw a SAS frame "B" P229 from 2009 on GB and thought it was a FrankenP229, because I knew there were SAS frame P228s from 2009, and thought there were no "B" P229s. So, I contacted my SIG CSR to inquire. Turned out that it was not a FrankenSIG and did come from factory that way.

Interestingly, the SAS frame actually came from P229 originally, anyway. SIG, in 2009, just decided to allocate some of them frames to make the P228s, giving them frames the B serial numbers. But apparently, they had some of these B-numbered frames left over. So, what did they do? Gave them back to the P229 slides. So, now, you have the B-numbered P229s as came from factory. I forgot to capture the pics. However, I still have the serial number and email communications with the CSR Super about this P229.

Serial # B350345
Part Number: E29-9-SAS2B

Question: If it has a new serial number, do you need to do the transfer paperwork?

Or, would you want to assert that the original SN did not change, but a proof or other mark was added? Don't know how ATF would look at this.