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Avion Ancien, you have just correctly identified a non-French aircraft type! 😉

It is indeed the Schneider Motor Baby II, built in Grunau. This is the motorized version of the famous Baby II glider. Edmund Schneider did indeed imigrate to Australia, much to the joy of Australian glider pilots.

It was produced under license in Rumania, but the example shown is somewhat closer to home: it was license-built by N.V. Vliegtuigbouw in Deventer (The Netherlands), who at the time also built the Baby II, Grunau 8 and ESG under license, as well as their own designs the Snellen V-20 and the Wijkens Universal. Post-war, the company gained some fame with the Sagitta, seen earlier in this thread.

Your turn!

Not DFS, I’m afraid. But you have the correct country of the original design. Not that that matters much: most of the (motor) gliders in the pre-war period were of German design… Oops! Did I mention (motor) glider? There’s another clue for you!

It’s not Kronfeld, but he’s wearing the same helmet 😉

New one… Looking for the type (of course, and built in serial production too!), bonus points for who points out the factory where it was license-built). To complicate topic rules: this specific aircraft was first flown in 1938 and very thoroughly written off not two months later. However it was rebuilt with a new fuselage and flew again for the “first’ time in early 1939 😉

Savoia-Marchetti SM.79T I-ALAN at Benghazi 1943. Photo by Tony Tubbenhauer.

Then again, it may be just a poor translation -> forest fire due to lightning strike?

There is quite a good book on A14-6’s loss, written by the pilots, about their long ordeal to get back to civilisation. Title escapes me right now, but I’ll look it up if that helps.