Can anyone identify this aircraft model ?

[Gilles Hudicourt]

This picture was taken in the late thirties I think, maybe the early forties

[letsfly]

It is a V-77 Gullwing Stinson. If you search it online you will find many great pictures.

[jamesel]

It's a Stinson "Reliant". Possibly a SR-6, doesn't look like the later "Gullwing" to me...

[Gilles Hudicourt]

I don't think so. This aircraft has double wing struts, the V-77 Gullwing Stinson in all the pictures have single struts. Furthermore, I cannot find any Stinsons with those two flat windscreens and those small triangular side windows.....

[Heliian]

Noorduyn norseman

[Gilles Hudicourt]

It's a Stinson "Reliant". Possibly a SR-6, doesn't look like the later "Gullwing" to me...

You are correct, thank you very much. The closest match I found looking at pictures on the net is a Stinson Reliant SR-5 from about 1935.

[bizjets101]

Definitely a Stinson, just a question of the model, here is the R-3.
Looks like the same plane in your photo!

[Gilles Hudicourt]

Yes it does!

[Heliian]

Stinson rq-1 reliant. Check flikr for lots of pictures

[Antique Pilot]

Gilles,

Do you know the history behind the photo? It may have been some sort of a first flight or a delivery flight to Mexico, Central or South America.

AP

[Gilles Hudicourt]

Yes because this picture was sent to me by the pilots' nephew. His name is Gerard Edouard Roy. He was Haitian. He went to the US in the 30s to get a pilot's licence. This picture was taken the day he came back to Port-au-Prince from the US at the controls of the Stinson.
The US military decided to help the Haitian army create an Air Corps, in order to patrol the Haitian waters against German submarines. They first employed a few Haitians like Edouard Roy who had commercial licences and supplied the Haitian military with a few Boeing O-38Es. Edouard Roy was named the first commanding officer of the New Haitian Air Corps The first recruits were to train new Haitian recruits how to fly. When that effort was not crowned with success, the US military decided to send six Haitian recruits to train at Tuskegee Alabama were US Army pilots were being trained for the war. When the first 3 Tusgegee recruits graduated, the US Government donated a couple BT-13s, to Haiti and a few months later a couple AT-6s.

In 1944 Edouard Roy represented Haiti at the Chicago Convention that led to the creation of ICAO.



Later, the Haitian Air Corps Operated a Domestic Airline using DC-3s under the name COHATA, of which he was also the Director. I found on the FAA website that he obtained his FAA ATP in 1953 with a DC-3 type rating.

Lt-Col Roy, along with many other Haitian Officers (including one Tuskegee graduate), was murdered in April 1963 by Dictator François Duvalier (Papa Doc). He was 49.

[Antique Pilot]

Thank you, very interesting.

[Ricktye]

Look to me to be very similar to the Stinson SR-8 CF-AUS purchased by Tom Lamb in 1935. See the attached picture.

www.lambair.com

['97 Tercel]

That's a good-lookin bird...

[Antique Pilot]

CF-AUS is actually a Stinson JR SR according to the Canadian Aircraft Registry. It is currently being restored by a well known antique aircraft guy near Saskatoon.

AP

[Moose47]

G'day

The aircraft is a Stinson SR Reliant (also recorded as a SR-7A). It was originally registered as NC12191 in the United States and later brought into Canada by K. Johannesson where it was given the Canadian civil aircraft registration CF-AUS. The next owner was Tom Lamb, followed by C. McNeal. From there is went to M&C Aviation. It was withdrawn from use on the 30th of April, 1943.

Cheers...Chris

[GyvAir]

On the aircraft in the original post photo, I give a tentative vote for the aforementioned SR6 Reliant.
Rounded corners on side window, wheel pants, cowling, exhaust, propeller, steps all look right. Even the solid line scheme on the fuselage and cowl match.
Any idea what's in the two small emblems just aft of the cowling?

[bananaskins767]

[bananaskins767]

I was on my way to my home town in the north one sunny afternoon/early evening and decided to split a hit of LSD with my girlfriend who came along with me that day. We popped it about 20 miles out of my destination and by the time I was landing I was fucking flying! and what did I spot after landing but an old Reliant sitting off the runway some distance. We walked over to it, opened the door and hopped in and I started it up and was going to take it for a circuit, having absolutely no idea who owned the damn thing but somewhere from the dark recesses of my acid soaked brain a little voiced cried out for me to get the @#$! outta that Reliant and go home.

Sometimes you just get lucky!

[ninjacrumb]

What a beautiful plane the Stinson Reliant is.

There used to be one at the Brampton Flying Club a while ago. Owned by an old AC Captain, Neil MacDonald(??).

This plane ranks in elegance up there with Beech Staggerwings and Cessna 195s.

[GDRoy]

Yes because this picture was sent to me by the pilots' nephew. His name is Gerard Edouard Roy. He was Haitian. He went to the US in the 30s to get a pilot's licence. This picture was taken the day he came back to Port-au-Prince from the US at the controls of the Stinson.
The US military decided to help the Haitian army create an Air Corps, in order to patrol the Haitian waters against German submarines. They first employed a few Haitians like Edouard Roy who had commercial licences and supplied the Haitian military with a few Boeing O-38Es. Edouard Roy was named the first commanding officer of the New Haitian Air Corps The first recruits were to train new Haitian recruits how to fly. When that effort was not crowned with success, the US military decided to send six Haitian recruits to train at Tuskegee Alabama were US Army pilots were being trained for the war. When the first 3 Tusgegee recruits graduated, the US Government donated a couple BT-13s, to Haiti and a few months later a couple AT-6s.

In 1944 Edouard Roy represented Haiti at the Chicago Convention that led to the creation of ICAO.



Later, the Haitian Air Corps Operated a Domestic Airline using DC-3s under the name COHATA, of which he was also the Director. I found on the FAA website that he obtained his FAA ATP in 1953 with a DC-3 type rating.

Lt-Col Roy, along with many other Haitian Officers (including one Tuskegee graduate), was murdered in April 1963 by Dictator François Duvalier (Papa Doc). He was 49.

Gerard Edouard Roy was my Grandfather. I was wondering if any of you have more information about him. I realize this message is @10 yrs old but I was hoping to learn more about him. I was only a couple months old when he was murdered, I wish I got the chance to meet him.

[Gilles Hudicourt]

Hi.
You can contact me and I will tell you what I know.