Potez 25 brought back from extinction in France

Twenty-seven years after construc-tion began in a borrowed workshop in a southern suburb of Paris, a reproduction Potez 25 was unveiled at the Musée de l'Air at Le Bourget on June 16.

The driving force behind the project to recreate this extinct general-purpose inter-war biplane is Michel Flora, who began gathering material relating to the type in the late 1960s. After retiring from his job as a telecoms engineer in 1998, Flora moved the project to a small village in the Saône region of eastern France and created a volunteer group, Association de sauvegarde du patrimoine Potez 25 (ASPP25), to complete the project.

This is just a taster — see August's Aeroplane magazine for the full news story and pictures.