Do you want a vintage aeroplane for less than £1500?

Too late, folks, it’s been sold!

Unfortunately it’s just too large, Laurence, to fit into the roof space of our first floor sitting room. So that you can put matters in context, currently I’m searching for a period HM-14 because, having done the measurements, I could suspend one from and between the beams of that room!

I’m sure it would look great at your place, and fitting too. A real avion ancien chez “avion ancien”.

What is the engine, Chitts? Evidently it’s not a [Walter] Mikro[n] and I haven’t found any reference to a ‘MIKRO’ engine (either aero or modified for use as such).

I’d like the engine; the airframe would cheerfully heat the workshop for a day or two.

It would appear that the builder of this Mignet HM-8 was Charles Dumont (q.v. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dumont_(pilote)), who flew Salmson 2a2s during the Great War. A Dumont is listed by Le Trait d’Union as the builder of a modified HM-8. Charles Dumont died in 1986. The vendor presumably is his son, Henri Dumont. A little research on the internet suggests that the fuselage may have been been hanging from the roof of one of the workshops on the Dumont family nursery (the nursery, which has been in business since 1590, is highly regarded, particularly for the range of rare and historic apple trees that it propagates) for many decades. What happened to the flying surfaces, I’ve not yet ascertained.