Think the guy with the hose appears to be wearing a lifejacket...so ,possibly a seaplane..?...Japanese..?

For seaplanes I will stab at the BV222 (or BV238) there are not that many differences between them which would show from this photo.

None of the above.
Only one built - that is to say with the engines illustrated.
I rotated the photo slightly to the left - otherwise too much of the engines would be visible.

Is this a turboprop? Those nacelles look rather long for a big recip.

They're liquid cooled V12 engines...

XB-38 Flying Fortress with Allison V-1710s?

Indeed it is Treaders - over to you sir. :ok:


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Lucky bit of Wikipediaring gave me a hint but image wasn't a clincher!

I expect this will be cinch for somebody...

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Oh dear,
With the pilot having no view on the runway;
The passengers will do shock absorber duty upon landing

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Well done Noyade, your controls... :ok:

Thanks Treaders.


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Ed Heinemann was involved in making this machine...

International Air Coach?

Sorry, I have no idea what that is?
So, I can confidently say - no.

It's made outta wood.

Fin is certainly reminiscent of the A-26. Those elevator actuators or whatever they are (some form of mass balance?) are unusual but also strangely familiar.

Bowlus XCG-7 Glider. Open House if correct.

What I love about this site is when subjects I never even knew of are identified. . One never stops learning. . As just now!

Yes and how do these work?
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They are mass-balances for the control surface...

Indeed it is Mel. :ok:
We're back to Open House.


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this saw better days

Indeed, every day is a school day...

Thanks Sycamore re mass balances, think I might have a 1/48 kit in the loft which features similar on elevators or ailerons... it must be a fairly common vintage type but damned if I can remember what!

First thought was the Apollo.
But probably the Accountant?


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Although one artist gives the door a rectangular shape?


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G-ATEL?!
AviationTraders Engineering Ltd.
So personal reggies were alive and well, even in 1957!
That sequence wasnt issued until 1965.

twiddle your thumbs until tomorrow.....

I always thought the first UK out of sequence registration was G-BSST for the first UK Concorde, and only then because the French had done it.
I was wrong. Did Freddie Laker have someone inside the ARB/Board of trade?

Vague recollection of several out of sequence allocations being granted before the general free for all started in the mid 1970s - G-VTOL, G-BSBH, G-BJCB plus the BOAC Concorde allocations were all quite well known, but I think there were one or two earlier examples in the 1950s/60s. Earliest was probably G-EDCA (Director of Civil Aviation, Sir William Sefton Brancker), allocated to two separate DH-60s when the G-EAAA-EBZZ sequence was allocated prior to the modern register commencing from G-AAAA in 1929.

Edit: yes, forgotten G-BSST!

Whilst we are twiddling thumbs...

That name reminds me of the day I attended an Air Transport Licensing hearing at the CAA in Kingsway, London.
It was the Skytrain licensing application and Freddie Laker was there with some glamorous cabin crew.

During the hearing he asked the Chairman if he could present a petition supporting Skytrain which had been signed by 3 million people. The Chairman agreed and the hosties then proceeded to fill the whole room with stacks of paper about 10 feet high, so much so that you could barely see the panel!

The Chairman then asked Freddie if he wanted this huge mound to be submitted as evidence.

“Of course I do!”, blurted out Freddie, to which the Chairman immediately retorted : “Then, as required by the regulations, you must submit it in triplicate ...as all other evidence”.

The room collapsed in laughter!

Yes the fabulously named Accountant - I thought it would last a bit longer but there are too many clever folk on here... over to Noyade!

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Thank you.
Here's another fuselage + door...


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The Old Joke.
!st Prototype " The Accountant"
2nd Prototype "The Administator"
3rd Prototype "The Receiver"
And let's not go in to the Avro 748's ancestry!

The 748 is still flying out of Pickle Lake , and Red Lake Ontario . Testimony to the genius of Avro Engineering .
Still lots of Airframes left , surprised nobody has not converted them with newer noisemakers .

How many 80Ps(ATP) are still flying?

Dutch jewelry?

Of 67 built l would guess that there are no more than 20 still flying and most of these will be with West Atlantic Cargo. I don't think any that went to India are still active but there may be a couple still soldiering on in Indonesia.

Might be an S-M 81....?

I suggest G-AHDM on the Miles HDM105 (1957, originally a Halifax/Halton in 1946), plus in the more modern lot was G-BIII. There were others which were "special" but almost in sequence with the normal course of things, particularly G-AWOG for Prince William of Gloucester

I was thinking Siebel 204
(Siebel is one of the largest jewelry stores in the Netherlands)

I would be guessing as I am not sure . I have seen only three in the last while . The biggest issue is getting engine work done as the only shop still providing service is in New Zealand . Just looks like the Saab engines might just bolt right on , same high thrust lines :)