The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.

[lefty]

No, Ferry. Don't know much about the LET-400, but the LET-410 has a very circular fuselage, and this one is definitely square ! Not A Czech production.

[Moses03]

No clue really. Something from Eastern Europe maybe?

[lefty]

It is not European at all.

[wout]

It seems you got us all left!
A longshot, maybe a Short 360 (C-23 prototpype) with smaller windows?)

[wout]

On second thought I think the cockpit area does not match with the Short.
My final bid: "Something" from Harbin Aircraft , PRC

[lefty]

Right, if Wout and Moses are out of ideas, I think we'll move on. Wout was getting close...

This is (wait for it) the Nanchang Jing Gang Shan-4 ! (same designer as the Ring Ting Dingaling, you all cry....) It never got past prototype stage in 1970.

Now, for all you floater lovers , one ahead of its time..

[lefty]

On reflection, not much to go on in that pic. Here's another..

[Moses03]

That the Kirkham Air Yacht?

[lefty]

Kirkham Air Yacht it is, although The Jane's of the period refers to it as the 'Air Boat' . Quite a snazzy number for 1925, don't you think ?

[Moses03]

For 1925, agreed that it looked ahead of it's time. Found some info in the Flight archives.

Here is one that is armed and dangerous.....well maybe not that dangerous...

[lefty]

Well if that wasn't designed by our Anthony, it was somebody looking over his shoulder..........

[Moses03]

In this case you might look for that guy over the shoulder...

[Moses03]

Front view-

[DHC2Pilot]

Has some "Russian-ness" about it, except for those wheel pants. Then there's the external longitudinal reinforcements reminiscent of a Bloch design. Call me stumped as usual. I'm guessing it was built somewhere around '29 - '32.

[lefty]

Don't think it is Russian, or Japanese. Quality of photo and general appearance make me think it is probably an American one-off.