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fauteuil volant
Your reasoning is cogent, Mechta, but how do you reconcile that with the apparent scale of the aeroplane? I can't see how anyone of a 'normal' size could get into it in order to pilot it. And if it is a pilotted aeroplane, dating from c.1924, I'm at a loss to understand how the machine could have remained 'off the radar' for nearly a century.
fauteuil volant, The fuselage does look slim, however as has been said, people were generally slimmer then. I've been in canoes which are narrower than that fuselage, and if it was home built it may have been fairly minimal in terms of seating. There is a good chance that the aeroplane wasn't registered, or may even have been hiding behind a previous registration of re-used parts, in which case it probably wasn't the first or last to do so. If it was built using reused parts, there is a also the possibility that the propeller was being reused from something else too, so the date on it may be misleading at best.