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I was recently sent this picture to see if I can identify it.


My best guess is that it is a Focke-Wulf Fw 58 Weihe



But I'm not positive. The wing looks a little high on the fuselage and the tail is not quite right. Anyone else have an idea.

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Almost certainly not a Fw-58.

Looks like a sea plane, and probably RAF too, judging by the uniform of the officer, and what looks like an RAF fin flash.

Cheers,
Richard

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Richard Mallory Allnutt - Photography - http://www.rmallnutt.com

Cant Z.506 "Arione" Italian tri-motor floatplane. Widely used as a patrol bomber and ASR bird in the Medditeranean.

Here are a couple of photos, and a painting by master aviation artist Koike Shigeo.

SN

Allied Code name IONE was a fictional design perhaps based on this aircraft. Fiction magazine suggested Aichi Type 98 tri-motor float plane.
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Thanks guys, I knew I could count on WIX to figure this out.

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most definetely the italian float plane.... the tail configuration gives it away.

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!