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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

No perhaps about it, it is the Merville - or Druine - D.63. Had you not come up with the identification, Uli, I intended to post another photograph, taken from a different angle, which shows more clearly its Condor ancestry. But that's not necessary as it's over now to Germany.
 
Full hit, Chris! :icon29:
Aerofiles says: "Evaluated for combat, but rejected and used as a trainer. In considerable varied civil use from war surplus; about 60 show thusly on records, with many converted to 90hp Curtiss OX-5."
I.e. one of those many. Over tothe US.
 
She had a so-called geodetic wing construction. First flown 1965 with Continental A65 that was later traded in for a Lycoming O-145-B.
The registration was later transferred to a shoulder wing type by the same designer.
 
Thanks, Walter!

Do you have a photo of the Foster Airspeed with the same registration? Couldn`t find one in the www.

Here is a big biplane of an earlier era.
 

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This is the Foster Airspeed N827Z as requested by fabulousfour.
Note the vertical tail which resembles that of the Aerodyne.
 

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