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gekho

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Can anyone help me to identify this aircraft? the only thing I can tell you is that is french and the picture was taken around 1940. a DC-2 perhaps? or a Breguet 470 Fulgur?
 

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Definitely a DC-2 or one of its family. You can tell the difference from the DC-3 by the straight sides. The DC-3 fuselage had a more round section. I took the picture below at the air force museum in Dayton Ohio about 10 years ago. If I remember right the sign said it was a hybrid with the fuselage of a DC-2 and wings of a DC-3
 

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Your photo is a C-33, basically a DC-2 with a DC-3 tail plane. The fuselages are the same forward of the empennage and if I remember correctly both aircraft were built off the same original production tooling. The Republican AF operated 4 or 5 DC-2s and I would guess they might have been delivered through France. Additionally the loop antenna and radio masts are also a give away - I think KLM operated DC-2s with the same equipment.
 
It could be......
 

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And waht about these? The first one seems to be a japanese floatplane captured by the americans, and the second one.... a captured Blohm Voss?? It´s not a Coronado and neither a Mariner.
 

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Yes, the first aircraft is the Bloch. The lower wing, engine cowling shape, what's visible of the undercarriage, and the cabin windows are the indicators.
The flying boat is definitley a Sort S23 'Empire' class, operated by B.O.A.C., a design which was used for the development of the Sunderland.
 
Can anyone help me to identify this aircraft? the only thing I can tell you is that is french and the picture was taken around 1940. a DC-2 perhaps? or a Breguet 470 Fulgur?

Personnel of GC III/6 ready to move to a new base in Bloch 220 mobilised from Air France.
 
I am a little bit confuse about this Beaufort...what country does it belong? is it portuguese or turkish? At the bottonm of the picture many british aircrafts can be seen, so I dont know waht to think....
 

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