Hi Jean,
Where I was coming from on the request for FW- serials can be seen here:
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_F-24.html
As you'll note there are lots of gaps in this FW- series towards the bottom of the page.Unless I am fortunate enough to get a response here on TOCH where a reader is directly able to identify F-AROR, I was thinking of working my way through the complete FW-prototypes list if one exists.I've worked my way through the ones on the link I've provided and no luck,but the fact that Aviana 10 was initially FW-07 before becoming F-AROQ leads me to believe that a more complete list of these FW- serials might help in identifying F-AROR.My thinking is perhaps excessively linear,but might a machine originally regitered somewhere between FW-08 & FW-46 be the machine I'm looking for.
While I very much appreciate your offer to check your local library next week and a result would be great I really would feel bad putting you through too much work.So if the publication has a list of the FW- serials in excess of that shown on the site I've linked to, that would probably be all I'd need and I could then search the web for the types listed and see if one fits.Obviously if an accurate entry exists for F-AROR,that would be quicker and better!
I agree that the machine would appear to have belonged to a state run agency.Were the CT- serialled machines reregistered at any stage before the war with french civil registrations or did they exist right through to 1939-40?
Best Regards,
Clint