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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

This is another aeroplane with a non-PC registration, G-AFOK, the Heston Type 5 Racer. It flew - for all of five minutes. Maybe that's why it was called the Type 5!
 
Here, pre-war, it has a 40hp Salmson up front. It survived the war and some years later was modified, redesignated, gained a 105hp Hirth and a new registration mark. The latter wasn't cancelled until 2015, so it may be extant somewhere.
 
Here's what it looked like post-war, with the Hirth replacing the Salmson, or, at least, that's what the books say. To my eye it looks like a completely different, rather than a modified, aeroplane. Maybe that's why it was given a new designation and registration?


 
No, it's exactly the same, apart from the wing shape, the circular versus slab-side fuselage profile, the tail unit, the struts, the stub wings, the cockpits, and the entire undercarriage.
Otherwise, it's identical....... Are you 'avin' us on, Mike ????
 
The second aircraft is the Guelton HG.2 from France.
I stumbled about that one during my search but discarded the possibility because of the completely different look.

In the secretprojects-forum there is mention of a Guelton Mouette, so maybe this is the plane we are looking for?

What is really strange to me is that the first photo looked very familiar at first sight but that was probably sort of optical illusion.
 
The first one is, according to Roger Gaborieau, the Guelton HG-1 F-PAAN. It's when one turns to Pierre Gaillard that things get complicated. He says that Humbert Guelton produced a first light aircraft in 1939 and a second, F-PAAN, was modified in 1952 with a new registration F-PEAV and a Hirth 504-A2 motor. So is this one HG-1, without identity, and a second HG-1 which was modified, post-war, to become the sole HG-2 F-PEAV? Or is it one aeroplane that started its career as the HG-1 (F-PAAN) and concluded it as the HG-2 (F-PEAV)? I'm afraid that I don't know (but I know a place where I might find those who might!). For the present, Robert came closest so I'm minded to award him the frothing tankard. Please take us away, sir.
 
Thanks, Mike, very confusing. :dizzy:

So here we go with a biplane that definitely had only a single designation.
 

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