The aircraft in the second photo is the Heston Type 1 Phoenix ll and the photo would have been taken between 1936 and 1939.

Welcome to the Forum, but you will be attracting Mod’s attention by reviving dead threads without significant new information, forum rules!:)

Cannot find an original name and as the aircraft was delivered to the Air Force on 6/12/41 and crashed on 23/2/42, it is possible it did not.:confused:

March issue received today, good snow day tomorrow to read it!:)

Information seems to be correct, also registered as F-BGSO.

Save you all scanning that looong list!

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I’d wager that Mr Baugher made a typo in the registration when checking that B-17’s previous identity…[/QUOTE]

8889 (c/n 8289) accepted by the USAAF on 31 January 1945 at Hunter Field in Georgia,
assigned 8th AF (stored), assigned Apr 8, 1949 to 7499th BS at Wiesbaden, Germany. Converted
to RB-17G Oct. 14, 1949. Stored Olmsted AFB Sep 17, 1953 . Converted to QB-17G Apr 1954 –
SOC Jun 1954 at Olmsted AFB. To civil registry as N9642B, to D-EGBE, to OO-SPO. On Aug 12, 1954
to Institut Geographique National of France as F-BGSO, it was heavily modified by the
IGN for survey work. Donated Sep 8, 1976 to the Musee de l’Air in Le Bourget near
Paris, France for display, last reported (Dec. 2000) in storage.
8891 transferred to Brazilian Air Force. Withdrawn from service in 1967.

We await your reply, could not see a category that would cover your choice if you did not know the picture number?