What is this old biplane?
The aircraft is one of many (5 or 6) SAML-Aviatik type &quot;S&quot; and type &quot;A&quot; Italians that flew in Argentina in the '20s. All were for civilian use. Most had Colombo or FIAT engines in line, but the one in the photo (type &quot;A&quot;) was the only with a rotary engine (Le Rhone?) that flew in Argentina. It belonged to the Italian pilot Renato Balleri, who together with the American Henry Johnson made public shows of flights, acrobatics, parachute jumping and flight baptisms throughout the country.
Henry Johnson died in an accident one of those events, in the city of Quilmes, in 1934.
The images are of this same plane in the province of San Luis.



Here an Italian SAML-Aviatik A.2...