there are still treasures to be found
 

look at this Fieseler Storch fuselage in a hangar somewhere in France.

There is a lot of work to restore it, but it is a wonderful base for a restoration, and probably with a lot of history behind.

Unfortunately, the owner do not want to hear about selling it or giving it away:

"it is a family aircraft" he states..

too bad !

GC

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Do you know its history beside the 'cadeau' ? ;)

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eh non, sorry.

Gilles

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could be post-war French...as opposed to German

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@ Gilles,

crossing fingers that nobody is going to refurbish that bird with a Salmson engine to turn it into the "ugly duck" named Criquet.

:D
Santé
Norbert

Re: there are still treasures to be found
 

Right, it may be a French Morane 505 Criquet, but... it may be also a genuine storch;

It was purchased from a scrapdealer in the 50's, so, who knows ??

I just wish it will not be scrapped: please keep fingers crossed;

GC

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Did you detect any ID-plates? Usualy there is a metal triangle plate at the aft section of the fuselage with the W.Nr. stamped on it.

Can I use one of the photos for my website? www.preservedaxisaircraft.com, can you give a geographical location for it?
/Mike

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Hi Mikael,

I thought about checking ID plates but as you could see, the aircraft cannot be reached (too high !!)

Thanks for asking if you can use the pictures: the answer is "yes", and I would appreciate if you could show my name under these.

Place: You can mention "in the South West of France".

All best.

GC