Warbird Information Exchange

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?

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Kevin Kearney
Vice President
Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation


C-54D "Spirit of Freedom" 43-17228
C-97 "Angel of Deliverance" 52-2718 (painted as YC-97A 45-59595)
C-54E/R5D-4 "Spirit of Freedom" 44-9144 BuNo 90414 (wfu April/2020)
http://www.spiritoffreedom.org

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

French SO 30 Bretagne

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

Laurent

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

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If God had intended airplane engines to have horizontally-opposed cylinders, Pratt & Whitney would have built them that way.

Different props, so are the engines different also?

it's uglied up in grand fashion!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Takes the prize ribbon from the Brits.

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

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