French Curtiss prop blade

Thanks Andy, that narrows it down a bit. At least it’s a distinctive shape.
Yes Tony, an interesting aircraft. Curtiss went to great lengths to make it French, even down to the undercarriage and fire extinguisher labels. Always quite exciting to find bits in a different langauge.

Ian – seems very familiar!

Try Striberny’s 109, Eastry, maybe?

Or Long Bredy, Me 110, 7 October 1940?

Or the Me 110 near Wareham (forget date, but August 1940)

He had similar items from each.

Lovely pedal Ian! I think there is something about that Mohawk and its history. I have a soft spot for the aircraft type diverted from French use in those early war days. There were a few wrecks on the Plain that were left as target. By the time we were allowed to visit them they had mostly been trashed and partially buried.

Hello Andy, a long shot but do you recognise this 109/110 stub? Also ex Bill’s but not mine. You could save a long trawl through the Foote files!

Thanks for the confirmation Andy, that’s excellent. Glad to have got some of the bits back together. There is a cylinder head from the Mohawk at Hawkinge, wrongly labelled.
Looking through the dig photos Tony,I wish I’d got more than one Browning. You live and learn!

Lovely prop! Would be nice to have some of those interesting parts in the Museum! Wish Id got a 303!!

I wish I had.

Much of it vanished, and I think the engine was scrapped.

As I recall, Bill ended up with at least one of the blades that found their way to Tangmere. I am 100% certain this is one of them. There were definitely two. May have been three. I have no idea what happened to the instrument panel, rudder pedals etc etc.

Thanks both, thought the same thing. It’s a strange coincidence having re dug the Hawk a few years ago. The original digger driver’s son drove the JCB for us. He remembered the Londoners only being interested in the engine and throwing most of what they found back. He wondered when someone would return to recover the rest. Andy, I don’t suppose you’ve got any photos of the Mohawk display at Tangmere? I remember seeing it but Philippa was only photographing Luftwaffe bits.

I think it is from the Hawk excavated many years ago by the London Air Museum.

Possibly a failed export French P-40 diverted to the RAF.