Built as a Let C11 trainer it was one of a large batch of the type acquired by Alain Chapel and Jean Salis from the Egyptian Air Force in 1985. In 1988 it was sold to the USA where it was rebuilt as a Yak-9, registered N9YK and sold to Jean-Marie Garric who replaced the original radial with an Allison V-12. It returned to France in 2003 and is now painted as a Yak-3 in the colours of Marcel Albert the most successful pilot of the Normandy Niemen Squadron, who served from the creation of the group in December 1942 until the end of the war and returned to France with his YaK-3 gifted by Stalin.

Note, the aircraft type "Tempete Sporting" is written in mirror image on this side of the fuselage, but the correct way round on the opposite side.

The Aurore MB 04 Souris Bulle (English: Bubble Mouse) is a French ultralight aircraft, designed by Michel Barry and produced by Aurore Sarl of Sauvagnon. The aircraft is supplied as a kit or as plans for amateur construction. (With thanks to Wikipedia)

Note unusually shaped fin and rudder.

Now retired after many years use as a ground instructional airframe it has been "put out to grass" adjacent to the IAAG Amaury de la Grange Aviation Center.

Wearing the paint scheme applied to celebrate the aircraft's 60th birthday in 2015. (See details on the fin).

The aircraft is officially listed as a Lorentz Stampe DL c/n 01 but is in fact a re-build, (hence the Fox Papa registration), of the wreck of Stampe SV.4A F-BDMI c/n 639 fitted with a Lycoming O-320 engine.

This aircraft was one of 21 Ultralight aircraft from the Amiens area of France that made their first night stop at Turweston on the way north for a tour of Scotland organised by the Amiens-based company Air Flash.

This aircraft was one of 21 Ultralight aircraft from the Amiens area of France that made their first night stop at Turweston on the way north for a tour of Scotland organised by the Amiens-based company Air Flash.

This aircraft was one of 21 Ultralight aircraft from the Amiens area of France that made their first night stop at Turweston on the way north for a tour of Scotland organised by the Amiens-based company Air Flash.