[jschreiber]

Hello

Here is the story of the plane, thanks to the members of the French Aeroforums and some personal research.

The aircraft was designed by a bunch of enthusiasts of the "Centre d'Aviation Populaire de la Région Nazairienne (Saint-Nazaire)" (therefore the CAPRN), as a Salmson 9 cylinders engineered 2 seater for beginners training. The State approved the design, and paid the drawings.

But the plane had to be manufactured, and, for political reasons, locally. An adhoc company, with the adequate structure, was created, as subsidiary of the obscure "Société Coopérative Aéronautique" (Paris) (therefore the SCA with no relation with the former SCA - the Société Commerciale Aéronautique). A shop was easily found in some disused part of the naval yard, and a engineer of the nearby SNCASO plant was put as boss.

After manufacturing, the plane was tested in the full scale wind tunnel (the results are preserved), but the aircraft remainded a single prototyp.

It can be reasonably assumed that the plane flew only locally, for beginners training, at the La Baule Escoublac airfield, a few miles from Saint-Nazaire, who the photography was taken, under the wing of a Navy LeO 258 converted as land plane.

It seems also that the F-AROR registration could be belonging to registrations allocated to the French State, which leads probably to a dead end...

Regards

Jean