RE: please help identify this plane
Paul,
It's a wood framed up Dirty Birdy. Either a 40 or a 60 but judging from the stab its a 60. The canopy shape is not right. You can get the correct one from Keith at Park Flyer Plastics. I would partially paint the canopy so it doesn't look like bubble out of place sitting atop the fuse...
What's for power up front?
David