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Thanks Richard...a pig of a challenge seems quite appropriate in view of the latest flu pandemic! I thought it might make for an interesting challenge! I saw the aircraft at Cranfield in 1983 and thought (at the time) it was an Aeronca variant of some sort!
Moving on to your latest, it looks terribly familiar (think I came accross it quite recently) but can't recall what it is! Anyway lets start things moving. I am pretty sure I am wrong, but Thomas Morse YO-23?
Moving on to your latest, it looks terribly familiar (think I came accross it quite recently) but can't recall what it is! Anyway lets start things moving. I am pretty sure I am wrong, but Thomas Morse YO-23?
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Not from Avia, or indeed Czechoslovakia. However, Czechoslovakia had the same masters as the challenge aircraft's country for a while, although on a different footing.
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I was beginning to think that I had imagined this aeroplane.
Congratulations Mel, it is the Hopfner-Hirtenberger HM-13/34. Designed in 1934 as a fighter/trainer by Hopfner Flugzeugbau GmbH of Austria. In 1935 Hopfner was taken over by Hirtenberger Metallwarenfabrik A.G. and the aircraft was completed as the Hopfner-Hirtenberger HM-13/34. The power unit was a 410hp Fiat A.20. It did not arouse much interest with the “newly formed” German Luftwaffe who preferred to use German aircraft. However, three aircraft (Nr. 52 (OE-FAH/D), Nr. 53 (OE-FEH/D) and Nr. 54 (OE-FIH/D)) were built. After the Anschluss of 1938 these were absorbed into the German Luftwaffe. Their fate is unknown.
Mel has control.
Congratulations Mel, it is the Hopfner-Hirtenberger HM-13/34. Designed in 1934 as a fighter/trainer by Hopfner Flugzeugbau GmbH of Austria. In 1935 Hopfner was taken over by Hirtenberger Metallwarenfabrik A.G. and the aircraft was completed as the Hopfner-Hirtenberger HM-13/34. The power unit was a 410hp Fiat A.20. It did not arouse much interest with the “newly formed” German Luftwaffe who preferred to use German aircraft. However, three aircraft (Nr. 52 (OE-FAH/D), Nr. 53 (OE-FEH/D) and Nr. 54 (OE-FIH/D)) were built. After the Anschluss of 1938 these were absorbed into the German Luftwaffe. Their fate is unknown.
Mel has control.