Aircraft ID?

[Airlift48]

I was looking online for C-54 info the other day (Specifically about the C-54M). I came across this photo on Wikipedia.

It's a nice shot of an Navy R5D, but what is the aircraft under the tail?

B-26? R3-d? (Dc-5)

Anyone?

[Second Air Force]

This is a total guess, but it looks like an indigenous French design that used B-26 parts to me. Not only the prop but the main landing gear design looks familiar. I can't wait to find out the I.D. on this one!

Scott

[dollar65]

French SO 30 Bretagne

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sud-Ouest_Bretagne

Laurent

[RareBear]

Here's a better photo of the SO-30P than the one on Wikipedia. You can see the cockpit window configuration is the same. Props are different, however.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/France---Air/Sud-Ouest-SO-30P-Bretagne/1264134/L/


Walt

[Obergrafeter]

Different props, so are the engines different also?

Last edited by Obergrafeter on Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[tom d. friedman]

it's uglied up in grand fashion!!

[Obergrafeter]

Takes the prize ribbon from the Brits.

[Second Air Force]

French SO 30 Bretagne

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sud-Ouest_Bretagne

Laurent

Thanks for the quick answer, Laurent! Seeing the Curtiss props led me to believe that there was a little B-26 mixed in there.

Scott

[Steve Nelson]

Seeing the Curtiss props led me to believe that there was a little B-26 mixed in there.

It's possible..I remember reading somewhere that when the Musee de l'Air restored their B-26G, they used engines and cowls from a French aircraft based on the Marauder, as the original B-26 parts were destroyed in the fire at Le Bourget.

SN