On Sat, 22 May 2010 08:59:54 +0200, GillesK wrote in :

John wrote:

It's time to play our favorite game . . . Name That Plane!!!!!

Seriously, does anyone know what type of airplane this is?

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/...37010587df.jpg

DHC-2 Beaver ?

The mystery plane doesn't have a rounded tail.

The cowl also looks different from the de Havilland Beaver.

I spent a couple of hours browsing. Couldn't pick out
a match. Some of the types that seem not to fit:

Beechcraft
Bellanca
Cessna 165, 195
Consolidated
Curtiss Robin
Curtiss-Wright Robin
de Havilland
de Havilland Canada (DHC series)
Douglas
Fairchild
Grumman
Howard DGA
Lockheed
Luscombe
Noorduyn Norseman
Piper
Porterfield
Rearwin
Spartan
Stinson
Travel Air
Waco
Wright-Bellanca


The plane has a very unusual set of characteristics:


radial engine: 1930s-1940s?

faired in cowl: late date? (Like the Lockheed Vega?)

Squarish tail: unusual for 1930s-1940s aircraft?

Half monocoque, half tube-and-fabric fuselage: Primitive? Cheap?

Flimsy (removeable?) door: primitive.

Strut from wing to landing gear?


I admit defeat.


Marty



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