French H-75A-4 aircraft

[Petitpoucet]

Hello Steven,

I think it is not a shame that that aircraft was restored as an A1. I'm French and very happy to see the only Curtiss Hawk 75 in flight with french markings.
S. Grey is not an historian, and got false informations, which were "true" few years ago.
Nobody can reproach him something. He really sought to know the truth, and a few time ago, nobody knew which n°82 has been used in Cazaux. Nobody knew that the A1 became a Finnish Hawk. And nobody knew that the A4 used a P&W engine in Cazaux.

So the data plate (not an original one) cannot be correct, because it is not the right aircraft, and because A1 n°82 = c/n 12879.

Concerning the wings, the were not complete in the wreck, and nobody can be sure that it was the original ones, they could have been changed before 1949.