Two more;

1) O-39 at Pope field. Only ten Curtiss O-39 Falcons were built, s/ns 32-211 to -220. The O-39 was a variant of the Curtiss O-1G, the O-39 being reengined with a Curtiss Conqueror engine, and fitted with wheel spats.

2) The US Army Attack plane A-12, is a Curtiss A-12 Shrike. More on the Shrike can be found here: http://home.att.net/~jbaugher4/a12.html

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Jan

Dan,

Absolutely brilliant photos!

I think I may be able to help identify a few of them;

1) The “30s monoplane” is a Seversky BT-8. The USAAC bought 30, s/ns 35-247 to -276, as their first monoplane trainer. The lineage to the P-47 Thunderbolt is there.

2) The Japanese divebomber looks like a Aichi D3A ‘Val’. The experts at http://www.j-aircraft.com will surely be able to identify it.

3) The OA-10 Catalina is most likely not s/n 43-4067, as this was a B-25J-1-NC Mitchell. Incidentally, this particular B-25 served with the 321st BG, 448th BS as ‘The Big Swing’, and crashed in Switzerland on 7 February 1945.

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Jan

Possibly there’s some connection with the war in Algeria? Incidentally, Maison Blanche is just outside Algiers, and was the site for a French Aéronavale air base.

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Jan

A list of European Air Forces post-WW II air-to-air-victories from the http://www.acig.org web site: http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_303.shtml

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Jan

No idea about the location, but the aircraft is a Hawker Hunter, and the band possibly Ultravox.

Re Ultravox, all I can remember about the band is that a Spitfire was featured in one of their videos.

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Jan

An early-model N.A. P-51 Mustang.

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Jan

In a survey of surviving Italian-built WW II-aircraft published in Flypast in the early 1990s, there was brief mention of some IMAM Ro 37 wreckage surviving in Ethiopia. Any news on these?

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Jan

Glasllwch,

At least three DH 89As operated in Sierra Leone;

VR-LAC, c/n 6603 p/i X7436, G-AOZG,
VR-LAD, c/n 6963 p/i TX305, G-AHPU,
VR-LAE, c/n 6827 p/i NR739, G-APKA.

I would assume that at least some of these may have been operated by Sierra Leone Airways.

There was certainly no DH 86 in Sierra Leone during the 1960s, as the last one (G-ACZE?) was written off in Spain in 1957.

During the 1970s, there were three DH 114 Herons in Sierra Leone, and scheduled flights for Sierra Leone Airways as well as for the various mining companies then operating in the country;

9L-LAD c/n 14025, later registered 9L-LAT,
9L-LAG c/n 14019,
9L-LAI c/n 14047.

You may have receive more answers if you post this on the Commercial Aviation forum as well.

Regards,

Jan