French H-75A-4 aircraft

[Lucien]

Let us be realistic. What Stephen Grey and his friends did with what was a wreck is just fabulous. There is no word "big" enough to praise him.
Now what about its disguise ? The fact that this a/c is THE H751 (A4) Nr 82 is irrelevant. It has been remotorized (in France) with a P & W and it looks for all world like a H75 so what was Grey's possibilities ?
- Having it re-remotorized with a Wright and have in hands an a/c of a model never used operationnaly by the Armée de l'Air ? or
- Keep it with its present motorization and have it restored and painted as a H75 which was widely used in action during the 1939-1940 campaign ?
Personnaly, I think that he did the right thing... And the result will honour, for years I hope, the memory of those countrymen of mine who lost their lives, flying this little America beauty.
What is more questionable but this is a Franco-French problem, how our stupid (to remain polite) administration did to let this hightly historical a/c leave the country ?