Interesting to see something different (for us in the UK) on the Forum – thanks for posting.
Presume the Aura was a small airliner – what engines did it have and how many passengers & crew?
Roger Smith.

Engine: Jacobs (civilian L-4 MB, military R755-9), 245 hp

It’s done!
In a French forum a member posted the solution:
This plane is a Weymann CTW 231 Tourisme.
The abbreviation CTW means Charles Terres Weymann.
The registration was F-ALQY.

http://www.aerostories.org/~aeroforums/forumhist/aff.php?nummsg=33592

Martin

edit:
It was three times modified, CTW 130, CTW 131, CTW 231
CTW 130 – 1 Renault 4Pb 95 hp , 1932
CTW 131 – 1 Hispano-Suiza 5Q 150 hp, 1932
CTW 231 – 1 Hispano-Suiza 9Qb 230 hp, 1933

Found these in connection with 30.10.1942, Manders taken POW, and Taber, WW Sub Lt and McBride, A L/A were both killed:
http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/RollofHonour/POW/M.html

Hi Martin,
have you already found this?

“It went to an AFB in Texas where it was briefly used but only for taxi training exercises. After sitting on the tarmac for a few years it was recycled for scrap. 07/14/2009 @ 13:37 [ref: 24295], Jon, Houston, TX”
http://www.aero-web.org/specs/hughes/hugxf11.htm

“The XF-11 went to Eglin Field, Fla., (now Eglin Air Force Base) to be tested, however the Air Force canceled the program in favor of utilizing the much more economical Boeing RB-50s to meet the long-range photo-reconnaissance requirement.”
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/xr-11.htm

“The sole remaining Hughes XR-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype, 44-70156, arrived at Eglin in December 1948 to undergo operational suitability testing but a production contract for 98 was cancelled.”
Fort Walton, Florida, “New Ship At Eglin”, Playground News, Thursday 30 December 1948, Volume 3, Number 48, page 1.

Martin

AA – you’ve got an email.

I should have been a little more precise in my translation. “Air de famille” translates a “family likeness” so the suggestion is not that it is an amphibian but that it appears to have similarities to the Caudron PV-200 amphibian.

There is another post on the subject on the French forum but as Martin initiated that, I’ll not steal his thunder for a second time!

Please, Michael, do it – your translation will be more precise than mine 😉
Martin

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