[Stig Jarlevik]

All interested

I have now "finished" my Maryland Mk I list.
Unfortunately it has proved impossible (for me) to get it 100% correct.
Far too many "dark horses" running around.

Reason for that are no doubt the lack of 100% detail within the French preserved documents.

As an example we have four aircraft mentioned just once by Cuny/Denel in their writings about the type.
No dates just a statement of arrival into Casablanca.
No 236, 250, 259 and 263.
If my theory is right, two of these must have been diverted to UK after all.
Due to various reasons I have discarded both No 259 and 263.

Other aircraft which simply vanish are
No 267, 270, 271, 279, 281 and 282
They get no mentioning at all by Cuny/Denel and neither do they fit in as delivered to Britain.
We know they are not the six sent directly to Takoradi (they are all numbered except one)

Due to this it has been impossible to establish exactly which six Mk I that went to SAAF as 1601 - 1606.
It is easy to think they fit the six 'vanished' French aircraft but if they really are then we have six
sent to Britain that gets missing instead.

I still don't have a clue what and from where HK865 came from. Syria/Lebanon is mentioned.

Anyone interested in my present list can contact me off forum with their e-mails and I will send
it over
Of course if anyone can add anything at all to the problem aircraft above, please feel free to do so.

Cheers
Stig