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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

We're getting bogged down here, Wout -the more you dig into pre- and post-war French aviation, the more contradictions you find !
I'll have one last stab - the early version of the Bloch MB-800 ??
 
Haven't had much time to research this one. No excuse though. I think wout will be going for the hat trick here.
 
The twin is the M-300 designed in1939 by Ets. Les Avions Mauboussin. However,construction only started after WW2 by Ets. Fouga & Cie (Mauboussin had been renamed) and first flight was in JUne 1948. The 4-6 seat M-300 was intended as air taxi, light transport, postal aircraft and had two 220-240hp Renault 6Q-10/11 engines.

new one is not Grumman, not Lake, not Goodyear, not Colonial, not Thurston, but its Amnerican and just after WW2
 
American, surely - bears similarities with the Chicago-Midwestern machine I think you posted a while ago. Can't work out which motors those are, though - two fives and a ten ??? Or is it a nine ?
 
Two fives and a nine and not from the USA. They are Gnome-Rhone engines but the airliner is not French!
 
If this is from the Moses stable, it is more likely a cheese made from bat's milk from the darkest caves of Transylvania.
 
Koolhoven were used to put engines on the roof but nothing like this one. The wing shape match though...
 
Well I wasn't so far out with my Transylvanian special. This is a Bratu 220 from Romania.:Banane18:
 
Thank you, Kevin. Something a little more modern, and, before anyone says 'light aircraft' this one had purely military aspirations...
 
The Fletcher FL-23 of 1950. The aircraft was a design of well-known John W.Thorp (a.o. Piper PA-28 Cherokee and many other designs).
AFAIK the design lost out to the Cessna O-1 Birddog
 
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