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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Well, the two-tone pre-war KLM colour scheme was a giveaway.

Here's a nice photo:
 

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Maybe you should give the answer Huub, as the others seem stumped...


Hint: Dutch, didn't make it to production as a product from a bigger name was chosen in stead.

Hint 2: It may be hard to tell from this photo, but it is a two-seat trainer (Side by side configuration).
 
Assumed it was Dutch and had a good old search - only description anything close was the NVI F.K.32 but that was supposedly a tandem-cockpit job. Give in !
 
So close Mike, but my mystery is the NVI (Nederlandse Vliegtuigindustrie; Dutch aircraft industry) C.III, which lost the competition to the Fokker S.II. The S.II was a side-by-side trainer so I assume the C.III was as well, but I can't be sure. After the failure of the C.III the designer Joop Carley sold his company to a certain Frits Koolhoven (Who had returned from England where he worked for BAT).

His F.K.32 does bear a resemblance to the C.III..(And not just on the outside, as the F.K.32 was also a one-off that failed to attract buyers!):

Anyway, OH gents!
 

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Hmm, no wonder I couldn't find it - can't find a reference to it anywhere ! Can you put a year on that, Ferry ??
 
Hello boys and girls!
Since Ferry declared OH may I pop in and submit to your attention following brute
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Cheers
BG
 
Sorry, Keith ( I reckon there were others poised, ready to strike, out there too !)

Here's a smoothie from a bit earlier..
 
It's gone a bit quiet - difficult to give clues without giving it away - it's in Aerofiles but without a photo - most photos on the web show it in a different mode...i.e. with floats ! Famous name.
 
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