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10-0718 Mignet HM290 Flying Flea (c/n -)

RAAF Association of WA Aviation Heritage Museum, Bull Creek

AIRCRAFT HISTORY & PHOTOS

10-0718 Mignet HM290 Flying FleaLEFT & BELOW LEFT: 10-0718 Mignet HM.290 Flying Flea at the RAAF Association Aviation Heritage Museum, Bull Creek, in 2007, 2008 and 2010. (Photos © David Eyre)10-0718 Mignet HM290 Flying Flea10-0718 Mignet HM290 Flying Flea10-0718 Mignet HM290 Flying Flea

HISTORY (© 2010 David Eyre):

   

This was the second Flying Flea that Bob Raper had built.

He built the first Flying Flea in Western Australia, a HM.14, which he tested at the West Subiaco airfield in 1936.

This modified HM.293 states that it is a HM.290 on the tail.

 

© 2010 David Eyre