Sorry, I’m getting more abstruse by the day! Does anyone have a photograph or information about the SFCA Lignel 46? I think that it was in the UK at some time in the 1950s participating in air racing. As far as I am aware there was only one – F-BCZJ – about which the DGAC website is not very informative. Not one of the major search engines can throw up anything about this aeroplane. Can anyone on the forum?
By: wieesso - 20th June 2008 at 23:39
McDonalds Aircraft of the World, 1956 edition, page 117. Race number 85.
John
She had the number 85 at which airrace, location, year? Shoreham ?
She also had the number 59? But when and where? Sept. 1951 ? Shoreham, ‘South Coast Air Race’ ?
By: wieesso - 20th June 2008 at 17:49
Trust the internet – now and then 🙂
F-BCFS was the registration of a SNCAN STAMPE SV 4C c/n 291.
By: avion ancien - 20th June 2008 at 17:00
Trust the internet-huh
F-BCZJ and F-BCFSinfo from a friend who did time in it
Are you sure? Wieesso may be right. The DGAC website records F-BCFS as a Stampe SV-4C which was scrapped in 1950. It has no record of the registration being reissued to the second Lignel 46. I have also checked all the permutations on the registration letters and none of those is a Lignel 46.
By: Arabella-Cox - 20th June 2008 at 16:20
Trust the internet-huh
F-BCZJ and F-BCFS
info from a friend who did time in it
By: wieesso - 20th June 2008 at 16:02
there were two
‘1 seul exemplaire construit.’ :confused:
http://www.aviafrance.com/558.htm
By: avion ancien - 20th June 2008 at 11:30
Thank you John Aeroclub, Wieesso and Rochford. You’ve added to my knowledge! Wieesso’s asumption was very kind but, unfortunately, incorrect! Rochford, what was the registration of the second Lignel 46 and what is the source of your information regarding its tailplane and landing difficulties?
By: Arabella-Cox - 20th June 2008 at 10:36
there were two
the tailplane was not big enough-extremely difficult to land
By: wieesso - 19th June 2008 at 22:48
THE A.J. JACKSON PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION has three negatives of F-BCZJ Lignel 46
http://www.ajjcollection.co.uk/FRANCE.HTM
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF TRANSPORT TRAVEL & TRADE has one picture of F-BCZJ SFCA. Lignel 46 [01]
http://www.transportphotos.com/air/item?id=AG02760
Fana N° 453 août 2007
‘Il y a 60 ans dans l’aéronautique française : Bloch 175T, Nord 1500 et Lignel 46 (R. de Narbonne)’
…but I guess you know this already…
By: John Aeroclub - 19th June 2008 at 22:34
McDonalds Aircraft of the World, 1956 edition, page 117. Race number 85.
John
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