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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

At the risk of falling foul of those blasted Soviet designations, I would say this is the TsAGI KASKR II, Ferry !
 
There was a great website to find this one, but I think it's on the Fritz.. :mixed-smiley-010:

Anyway, I'll let others try to find this one, and all the hints above really narrow down the search location!
 
Hi Lefty
This looks very much like a Koolhoven FK37....if it isn't...well, it means I have cut another poor figure dear me....
Cheers
BG

But it isn't for the simple reason that the FK37 was a project only besides it was supposed to have a central tractor engine not a pusher....well, let's start again....
 
The NVI F.K.33 was an airliner built in the Netherlands in 1925 for use by KLM for night flying. It was a largely conventional high-wing, strut-braced monoplane with seating for ten passengers in an enclosed cabin. A trimotor design, the placement of its engines was unusual. While two engines were mounted among the struts that braced the wings and the main units of the undercarriage, the third engine was mounted pusher-fashion on a set of struts above the wing. The engine installation was further unorthodox in that none of the three engines were enclosed in nacelles, remaining instead fully exposed.
 
Lefty, could you please post the photo of the FK-33 with its original registration visible, before it was deleted for the quizz?
This is a quite unique view of this rare aircraft.
Thank you
 
Can do better than that, Dan, here are three photos ! (I'm fortunate enough to have a copy of the 1926 Jane's)

There would appear to have been a change of mind about the length of the nose section ! Ferry ???
 
lefty said:
There would appear to have been a change of mind about the length of the nose section ! Ferry ???
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After the first flights in September 1925 and adding the third engine, it seemed the aircraft because too tail heavy, so the Luggage compartment was moved from the back to the new, 1.5 meter longer nose in November of that year. Also the engine were moved forward by 75 centimeters.

It wasn't very succesful, as the only aircraft built was involved in several accidents and it disappeared in 1930.
 
Thanks srgalahad!
Here's my next proposal....I know the pic is grainy (more than grainy....terrible!) but the item is pretty common....
Cheers
BG
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