The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[pomme homme]

With apologies for the delay, curiously here's a non-military single seater from a major manufacturer.

[lefty]

Well Mike, according to various sources, I think this is F-BBGC, which is a Morane-Saulnier 560, 563, or possibly 570 ! (Think I'll plump for the middle one...)

[pomme homme]

Spot on, Mike, on both counts. It is F-BBGC and a MS.563, the second and last aircraft in the MS.560 series.

As I can't find a wine glass icon, I'll offer you a virtual glass of chilled Quarts de Chaume, perhaps a Chateau Bellerive 1988, to toast your success.

[lefty]

Well I thought I had posted a reply early this morning but it has disappeared !

Try again - a floater that has suffered from a vent malencontreux - haven't we all on occasion ??

[pomme homme]

..... yes, but generally without such disastrous consequences!

[lefty]

Sorry to have let this drag on - pretty sure Pomme homme knows it -- but one more clue - three Farman 500hp motors, and she was designed for work with mail and passengers in the south Atlantic. From a well-known company.

[dan_pub]

Latécoère Laté-34 ?

[lefty]

That's the one, Dan ! Over to you

[pomme homme]

What puzzles me is that the only photographs that I found (on the airwar.ru website) of the Laté 34 show a passenger cabin with windows above the sponson, which seems to be absent in the photograph which you posted, Mike. Maybe the airwar.ru photographs are not of the Laté 34? Furthermore the recorded history and fate of the Laté 34 doesn't seem to tally with your narrative, Mike. The only other three engine (two tractor, one pusher) Laté hydravion I found was the Laté 50, which doesn't have a passenger cabin with windows (it was a postal aircraft), but I failed to find anything about its history or fate and only one side-on photograph. Maybe the source of your photograph, Mike, can shed more light on this?

[dan_pub]

Thank you Lefty.

Here is a modern non-floater:

[pomme homme]

SOCATA TB-9 Tampico?

[dan_pub]

A Tampico indeed. That was fast!
The baton is yours.

[pomme homme]

Thank you, Dan. I was able to respond swiftly to identify the Tampico because examples of its big brother, l'Armée de l'Air TB-30 Epsilon, used to fly low over our house on a regular basis.

[cthornburg]

This picture is from page 104 of Cuny's book. It is a Late 24. Somebody digitally altered the foto to delete the LATE.24 in giant letters on the forward fuselage. It was damaged in a storm at Salanque which caused it to crash into a jetty.

So more info on the Late 24

Chris

[lefty]

Yes Chris has nailed this one - it's the Laté 24. Sloppy work from me when I OK'd Dan's answer without checking.

The pic indeed came from Cuny's book, to which I treated myself as a birthday gift (big one last weekend !)

[pomme homme]

On the basis that the baton reached with me as a result of a misidentification, I demur in favour of Chris.

[Moses03]

The Latecoere book looks like a keeper. Must get a copy.

Happy 80th Mike!

[cthornburg]

I didn't do it for the baton. I just like finding info out about the obscure. I'm sure I can find something but will leave as it now. I like trying to find stumpers. It hard with you guys.

Chris

[pomme homme]

Please let me off the hook, Chris. I've nothing on the stocks at present!

[cthornburg]

Here's an easy one to keep going.

Chris

An here I am in my office researching Cessna 402. Still going strong at 72.

[srgalahad]

I squinted...
and squinted even more...
and I think I see a Luscombe T8F ( maybe a T8F-L)

[cthornburg]

Luscombe T8F-L it is.

Chris

[srgalahad]

OOPS! forgot I had to find a horrid critter in a grainy photo..
No, not senility, just too many things sur le plat.
(Like finally winning a two-day battle to find one house in Deux-Sevres )

BRB

[pomme homme]

(Like finally winning a two-day battle to find one house in Deux-Sevres )

You should have asked. I've lived in that département for over twenty years.

[srgalahad]

PH, it's a long story. Was actually going to ask you a couple of Q one of these days, so I'll PM you the saga), and thanks for the thought.

Since we've been looking at the undersides, here's another...