Aviation Museum Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis
Cerny airfield - La Ferté-Alais
June 2024
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We have all heard of the Association Jean-Baptiste Salis (AJBS) and their air meeting held each year at the end of May. Today I visited their facilty on a normal weekend, a few weeks after the air meeting 'Le Temps Des Hélices'.
They have a very impressive collection of veteran aircraft based here and for a modest entrance fee you can wander around the hangars free to take images. Jean-Baptiste Salis died in Dec 1967. A year later the Club decided it want to create a museum. The Jean-Baptiste Salis Association was created in 1972 to perpetuate the spirit of the pilots of the Great War in which Jean-Baptiste Salis was involved. Many, if not all, are airworthy including seven or more WWI replicas (which I choose to not include here). |
| North American AT-6C Harvard (43-12127 'TA-127' registered F-AZBE). |
Left to right: North American AT-6G Texan (51-15237 'OH' registered F-AZBQ).
North American AT-6G Texan (49-3056 '56' registered F-HLEA). |
Left to right: Boeing A75N1 Stearman (F-HIZI). Built 1943 as a PT-18 for the USAAF with the serial 40-1991.
Travel Air 4000 Private (NC4418). Built in 1928.
Stinson SR-10C Reliant (F-GPJS). Built in 1937.
Waco PCF (NC3557W). |
Left to right: Nord 3202 (F-AZIY No.15), designed as a basic trainer for the ALAT to replace the Stampe-Vertongen SV.4 it first flew in 1957. 'ZIY' has been with AJBS since 1979, where it was stored until its restoration from 1989 to completion in 1994.
Morane-Saulnier MS.502 Criquet (F-AZCP) is based at La Ferté-Alais. |
Left to right: Morane-Saulnier MS.317 (F-BCNL c/n 6527).
Morane-Saulnier MS.185 (F-AZAZ).
Morane-Saulnier MS.315 (F-AZAH c/n 254).
Morane-Saulnier MS-230 (F-AZAK). |
| SPAD S.XIII C1 (S.3836 '5' registered F-AZFP) built 1918, recovered by Jean Salis in the 1970s, and restored to flying condition by Memorial Flight Association at Le Bourget, it is only the original Spad XIII in airworthy condition in the world! |
Left to right: Morane-Saulnier MS-60 Moth (F-AZNY c/n 13) built in 1931.
Sopwith 1˝ Strutter 1B2 (3214 registered F-AZNM), it is one of only four surviving 1˝ Strutters. This example is a actually a French built two-seat bomber variant, having the official French military designation SOP.1B.2. It was restored to flying condition by the Memorial Flight Association, work began in May 2001 and she took to the air ten years later.
Polikarpov Po-2W (F-AZDB 'Black 9' c/n 0045).
SNCAN N.1101 Noralpha (67 'CY' registered F-GMCY). |
Left to right: Pilatus P-2-06 (F-AZCE '7 Red').
Bücker Bü131 Jungmann (F-AZTT).
Leopoldoff L-55 Colibri (F-PRJJ c/n 3). |
| Supermarine Spitfire FRXIVe (RM927 'G9-X' registered G-SXIV) has a French owner W Air Collection and has besed it at La Ferté-Alais. It was with No. 430 (Canadian) Squadron RAF, based at Eindhoven, the Netherlands. After the end of the war it was sold to the Belgische Luchtmacht (Belgian Air Force), and flew as SG-25 with code ‘3R-D’ until November 1947. Recently restored at Sywell for restoration, it is said to be 85% oringinal. |
Left to right: Spitfire FRXIVe (RM927 'G9-X' registered G-SXIV).
Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser (NC7972H).
Wag-Aero Sport Trainer (F-PJBS). |
