Somewhat surprised about lack of reactions.
First aircraft built in949 as .......I and second as .......II in 1954.
In 1960 efforts were made to revive the project and the modified aircraft no.2 appeared still as .....II, but under different company name.
The 1960 aircraft may still exist in a museum.
It's probably American - which takes me out of my comfort zone - but the closest I could find - within my comfort zone - is the M.S.700 Pétrel. But I don't think that is what it is as there is too much that is different between them, such as the engines, the tail, the canopy, the wing tip tanks, the undercarriage, etc.. But one would think that the range of choice cannot be great. There can't have been that many all metal (?) business twins with retractable tricycle undercarriage in 1949.
Hi giruXX
More than a resemblance. She IS the Meteor I.
When blowing up the photo the registration seems to be N5638N.
Meteor II was N9700C which later was modified with more powerful engines and a swept tail by Saturn Aircraft and Engineering Co.
Understand that the Saturn upgrade was supervised by C.Gilbert Taylor (of Taylor Cub fame)
Thanks Uli. My Turkish 'bible' has this as one of the three THK-10's built, differing from the earler THK-5 by having square, larger windows. The MKEK-5 was a project to further modernise the THK-5, but according to the book, the project was abandoned.
(Türk Uçak Üretimi by Tuncay Deniz)
Here's another twin - Walter posted it over ten years ago, and I hope he will forgive me for 'borrowing' it again. There seems to be very little information about it, so maybe Uli, Robert or Chris could enlarge ?
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