The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

Could anybody push me into the right direction where to find information about the Léger aeroplanes?

Couldn't find a single evidence in the net concerning the Léger RL.2, let alone its registration F-PHYY
 
Robert, I found it in Pierre Gaillard's 'Les Avions Français de 1944 à 1964'.

Walter, thank you. I'll put something new up in the morning.
 
Hi pomme homme:encouragement:
I donot know the name, but is this the aircraft built in Oran around 1956?
If correct, can you name it for me and do you have some background info on her (the plane).
 
You're warm, Walter, but you'll need to get a lot hotter - particularly as all the information required to identify this aeroplane is available on the internet - if you're going to nail this one. Yes, it is Algerian but it wasn't built at Oran or as late as 1956. However if it helps, since my last post I've found a better picture of it which I've attached below. I suspect that you've seen this picture already, and that it precipitated your last post, but I believe the caption to it to be factually incorrect.

 
A little more help toward the answer, peut-être? This was the designer's second aeroplane. The first was produced in 1924. This was produced in 1948. It was powered by a Volkswagen engine.
 
Well, I could provide all the technical specifications for this little Sidi-Bel-Abbès built creature, which the press described as 'part aeroplane, part motor glider', but I suspect that it won't help. However in the absence of an earlier identification, I'll let it run until the end of the day before revealing all!
 
well done fabulousfour. It proves you know your classics :applause:
Now pomme homme only needs to disclose the technics of the GL-4 and donate his copy of the book Lefty was looking for to him.
 
Never heard of that plane before today, Walter. :very_drunk:

It were just Mikes' clues that led me to the solution.

I finally found reference to the Ligreau GL.4 at secretprojects where three aircraft are mentioned, the Avionette from 1924, a transformed Avia 152A and the GL.4.

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=18781.0

Now, assuming that the GL.4 was the fourth constructed aircraft of Georges Ligreau, which one is missing?

Here is my next mystery, a close and unbiased look might help. :engel016:
 

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I can't, Mike, oblige you with the specific book you require but I can recommend Pierre Jarrige's books - L'Aviation Légère en Algérie 1909-1939 and L'Aviation Légère en Algérie 1945-1962 - and his website (https://www.librairie-pied-noir.com/content/35-aviation-algerie-diaporamas). The latter is the source of my second photograph, which M. Jarrige has failed to recognise as the Ligreau GL.4 and captions as 'Vers 1956 à Maison-Blanche, un avion d'origine inconnue construit par un amateur oranais', despite his website elsewhere containing a reference to and description of the GL.4 (q.v. http://chezpeps.free.fr/0/Jarrige/No...amateur-2.html).
 
Thanks Mike - fascinating indeed - I'll just nip down to W.H.Smith's on Monday and pick up a copy of those..........:running:
 
The aircraft was built a few dozen times, the plane in the photo was the last survivor then.
It differed slightly in appearance to the original type and crashed fatally about 50 years ago.
 
It is the Fieseler F 5R HB-ELF which found its way to Switzerland at the end of the war and received a canopy later on! :encouragement:
Over to you, Walter :icon29:
 
Thank you fabulousfour. Your description of the brird that brings new life did it.
New challenge is a high wing type in flight (I also have a better picture of her on the ground) :jump:
 

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