View Single Post
  #30  
Old 17th October 2006, 17:12
Modeldad Modeldad is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Wellesley, Peoples Republic of Massachusetts
Posts: 398
Modeldad will become famous soon enough
Re: French H-75A-4 aircraft

Interestint. Here is what the restorers at the Fighter Factory have to say about it:



All that's known about the history of the aircraft at the moment is that the a/c was shipped to the French Air Force in April 1939 and issued to GC 11/5 at Reims, thereafter based at Toul during the battle of France and then made its way to Oran, Algeria before the Armistice. From 1940 to '42 the Squadron was engage in sporadic fights with British aircraft such as Sunderlands, Hudsons, Fulmars, Wellingtons over Algeria, Tunisia and Morroco, plus USN Wildcats.
In 1946 until 1949 it was on the strength of the 4th Training Squadron at Cazaux in western France with 22 others. It was saved from scrapping by Michel Pont in the '50's and been in storage in France until the '80's until TFC moved it to Duxford.
__________________
Steven "Modeldad" Eisenman
Reply With Quote