Originally Posted by
A30yoyo
It should be pointed out that G-AFYO was allocated to this Stinson long long after WWII as a 'retro' style registration. At the beginning of WWII it was first assigned to one of British Airways never to be delivered Douglas DC-5s, then to a Bristol Bombay (never applied) and in 1944 to an American Liberator on the first Sonnie flight to Sweden (painted on in Sweden briefly for diplomatic reasons)
Yes, after being demobbed from l'Armee de l'Air it was operated by Aero Club Air France, based at Lognes (just outside Paris) until cancelled from the French register on 5th December 1973. It then seems to have gone into limbo for a few years until taking up G-AFYO in April 1977.