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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

The prototype crashed, killing the pilot and two passengers and the project was abandoned. From Western Europe...
 
I always think, when you see a tail unit braced all over like that one, it's a designer who's not very sure of himself. Looks like I was right in this case. No idea - thought it was a SABCA but the struts are all wrong.
 
Time to refresh methinks. This is the Loring Barron Trimotor of 1932. :spain:

Have another trimotor. Please press on with a new mystery if you know it, might not get back to the computer until midday tomorrow.
 
Northrop N-23 Pioneer
--predecessor of the YC-125 Raider

Please press on with a new mystery if you know it, might not get back to the computer until midday tomorrow.
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By then I may have slept and put in a workday, so...
 
The Fairchild F-47 in the middle (second of 3 flying examples).
I understand the F-47 did get certificated in 1948. Seems there was a pre-Lehman Bros situation going on at the time, so no production.
 
Sorry it this one looks like one the many Cessna types, but this comes naturally with high wing tri-geared sport planes.:applause:
 
Ok..
I tried a seach for: "Grumman AA-5 fuselage mated to C-152 tail with high wing and misc. parts" but the only reference was to this thread...
 
not a homebuilt and reportedly at one the manufacturer though about a higher powered military version for FAC.
 
Well, how about the one-and-only Cessna 160 (never have found a pic) that was "a simplified four-seat high-wing aircraft using non-tapering wings, extensive use of heavily-beaded wing and fuselage skins as well as free-castering nose gear to save weight and decrease the man-hours required for construction."

The military version was hypothetically the C-160M
 
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