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[JDK]

James..only you could come up with that, you anal-retentive old Git! No 3-blade prop,wide lower cowl..no Emil. Perhaps some poor beleagured German
supply sargeant finally cleared-out some New Old Stock he'd been carrying on the
shelves since the Spanish Civil War? Might not add up for you and I but maybe
he was able to finally clear his books in'44!!!

Ah well, some play with all those tedious Cessnas of the warbird world, others of us have struck out from the shallow end of the pool.

It's a theory.

I'd be interested to know where and when that photo was taken. It's not Spanish Civil War, of course ( ) because it's pre-war German markings; and I'd guess (and I could be wrong) that it was a pre-war dummy or decoy (perhaps for a Nuremberg Rally type event?) in Germany or Austria. There's no reason for it to be in France - why would you ship an over-carefully made innapropriate decoy from Germany to the war zone? For those who age going to say "it's just a dummy, dummy" I meerly point out this is a German creation. It's not ordnung.