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IJMMS 25:8 (2001) 533–547 PII. S0161171201003854 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. CUBIC EXTENSIONS OF FLAG-TRANSITIVE PLANES, I. EVEN ORDER YUTAKA HIRAMINE, VIKRAM JHA, and NORMAN L. JOHNSON (Received 7 September 1999) Abstract. The collineation groups of even order translation planes which are cubi cex- tensions of flag-transitive planes are determined. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 51E. 1. Introduction. In this article, we begin the analysis of translation planes of order q3 that admit collineation groups G which leave invariant a subplane π0 of order q, act flag transitively on π and act transitively on the set of components not in π . 0 0 In two previous, related articles (see [6, 7]), the general study of translation planes which are extensions of flag-transitive planes is undertaken. An “extension of a flag-transitive plane” is an affine plane π containing an affine subplane π0 and a collineation group which leaves π0 invariant, acts flag-transitively on π and acts transitively on the parallel classes of π not in π . 0 0 The main results of these two articles are as follows. Theorem 1.1 (see Hiramine et al. [7]). Let π be a finite translation plane which is a quadratic extension of a flag-transitive plane π0 . Then π is either Desarguesian, Hall, or the derived likeable Walker plane of order 25. In particular, (1) if the associated collineation group is non-solvable, then π is Desarguesian and (2) if the associated collineation group is solvable, then π is Hall, Desarguesian of order 4 or 9 or the derived likeable