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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Your local neighbourhood floater freak has been very quiet, Walter, because you have sneaked in a toughie !

Decided right away it was French or Italian, but can find precious few pusher biplanes with N-struts !! Bits of Macchi, bits of Savoia, and I've been right through my book of French hydros.....

Will keep slogging...
 
Hi Mike :encouragement:. You got the correct Ikarus. They did make a lot of buses !. When doublechecking prior to posting, I got the same buses. So switched to Ikarus flying boats and that worked.
Baragouin is absolutely right, it (she?) is an Ikarus IO. :icon29:

Invitation for the next challenge one should drop on the doormat any moment now!
 
Hi Wout

Your mystery involved some searching and I'm sure mine will be much easier but I need please the exact name and initials.....
There's a rather interesting story connected with it!
Cheers
BG
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pomme homme said:
Waco Standard Cabin YKC? I'm assuming that this is AX697 (ex SU-AAV) - Little Waco - of the Long Range Desert Group.
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Good evening pomme homme and congratulations on your expediency!
As a matter of fact I have a different caption below the pic (this being Waco ZGC-7 RAF AX695) as per affixed web site
http://lrdg.hegewisch.net/lrdgaf.html however I think you deserve the honours and thank you for carrying on (with an interesting new mysterious item) our magnificent thread.....
Cheers
BG
 
Thank you, Baragouin.

Here's something that I don't think will challenge you excessively. The reason I chose it is that it has connections with the last two offerings, one which is quite obvious and the other which is less so.

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Hi Pomme-Homme!
A very interesting picture of the RAF Fairchild A-942 (i.e. Fairchild Model 91 "Baby Clipper"). Only a bunch were built but they had a very adventurous life.....
Cheers
BG
 
There seems to be some doubt about how many were built - 3,7 or 11 depending on which source you consult. Does anyone have the definitive figure ?
 
Here is what Goldenyears has on the register:

NC14743 Fairchild F-91/XA-942 9401 NC14743 Pan American AW 24.11.36 To Spanish Republicans as 63-1
NC14744 Fairchild F-91/XA-942A 9402 NC14744 PP-PAP Pan American AW 00.12.36
NC15952 Fairchild A-942-A > A-942-B 9403 NC15952 PP-PAT N942B? Pan American AW 00.01.37
NC16359 Fairchild A-942-B Baby Clipper 9404 NC16359 Ohkura & Co /Japan Sold Japanese Navy
NC16690 Fairchild A-942-B Baby Clipper 9405 NC16690 HK832 Gar Wood To RAF
NC19130 Fairchild A-942-B Baby Clipper 9406 NC19130 Ohkura & Co /Japan
 
Well done, Baragouin. Exactly right. This one is HK832 of the Heliopolis ASR Flight. Formerly PP-PAP of Panair do Brasil, it sank after hitting an object in the water on take off near Benghazi in 1943. So it's back to you, sir!
 
Kevin, I think you also have the second one - NR777 - built for Richard Archbold of the New York Museum and terminally damaged in New Guinea ? That would make it seven.

And I'm curious about the connections, Mike ??
 
Rgr that Mike. I believe only 7 were built. There was a table published in the April 2008 Skyways that seems to confirm that.

"Pan Am ordered six, but the first one was delivered late and Pan Am cancelled their order for four of them. It came out in 1935. Including the prototype, only seven were ever built."
 
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