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Thanks LM & Skytrain Did you find F-AMAP on the register section of Aviation française, un siècle d'histoire - Aviafrance ?. The odd thing is that the type database on the same site does not list a H.80 or LH.80 under Lorraine Hanriot or Hanriot.
If it is the Lorraine Hanriot H.80 then this shot, on a postcard-back photo
looks like it may be unique.
A swerver is that the name Lorraine-Hanriot appears not to have been used before 1930 and the subject looks more early 20s.
Although it could be anywhere in Northern France the background tree pattern on the full picture is very like contemporary views of le Bourget.
Unless someone can find a picture of the Lorraine Hanriot to prove or disprove I guess that is as far as we will get , so i may as well restore open house However if there are any advances I can always be reached by PM.
If it is the Lorraine Hanriot H.80 then this shot, on a postcard-back photo
looks like it may be unique.
A swerver is that the name Lorraine-Hanriot appears not to have been used before 1930 and the subject looks more early 20s.
Although it could be anywhere in Northern France the background tree pattern on the full picture is very like contemporary views of le Bourget.
Unless someone can find a picture of the Lorraine Hanriot to prove or disprove I guess that is as far as we will get , so i may as well restore open house However if there are any advances I can always be reached by PM.
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Hi Doug...I use this website for historic registrations: http://www.goldenyears.ukf.net/reg_F-.htm.
The Aviafrance site is useful but as I have discovered, it is not totally comprehensive...take the recent Midgy Club aircraft as a good example.
I will keep looking....certainly the Lorraine seems the most likely candidate.
Cheers
Ken
The Aviafrance site is useful but as I have discovered, it is not totally comprehensive...take the recent Midgy Club aircraft as a good example.
I will keep looking....certainly the Lorraine seems the most likely candidate.
Cheers
Ken
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Doug, having looked closely at a Sopwith 1A2 I am beginning to think its that, with as you say, a cabin conversion. F-CMAP was a Sopwith 1A2. Perhaps worth emailing the picture to Mr Parmentier for him to investigate?
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Last Word on the Mystery Sopwith/Lorraine ?
Sorry to interrupt the current thread but this looks like the clincher. Rough translation from [Pionnair-GE]
01.07.1920 The first flight Paris-Geneva subsidised by the Air Ministry. From Le Bourget, Sopwith 130HP three-seater with passengers in 2 hrs 55min. 1st International air service to Switzerland.
The French register in aviafrance.com lists F-CMAP as a Sopwith Triplace.
The picture looks like le Bourget.
And, if it was a significant flight, there is a reason to produce a postcard of it.
So not only a Sopwith but with a date too.
Thanks all, Doug
01.07.1920 The first flight Paris-Geneva subsidised by the Air Ministry. From Le Bourget, Sopwith 130HP three-seater with passengers in 2 hrs 55min. 1st International air service to Switzerland.
The French register in aviafrance.com lists F-CMAP as a Sopwith Triplace.
The picture looks like le Bourget.
And, if it was a significant flight, there is a reason to produce a postcard of it.
So not only a Sopwith but with a date too.
Thanks all, Doug
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Bugger...went straight past that as it had a radial engine...or at least the photo I found had....now I've looked again more closely I see there was an alternative....
I'm sure you are correct Sinco
I'm sure you are correct Sinco