Fairchild Club Forum

'I keep learning more about my project from the logs and digging into more crates of stuff.
My struts are like new and they should be too. They were replaced back in 1973 and since
that time they only had about 50 hours put on them.

The logs do show reference to an approved 337 form to install ...

'We were over to George Coy's place two weeks ago. Quite the place and George
is quite the guy. Very patient and really took his time to show me what he does and
how things work. What interested me so much for my project was the M14D radial
which is a somewhat detuned, ungeared radial producing ...

'Early Christmas indeed. Thanks for the lead on the spare parts. No quick release
doors and I don't see the three lights under the belly either. I think the plane was
pretty much demilitarized after WW2 and then flipped from owner to owner since.

I'm not that sharp when it comes to web sites ...

'Giday, Al. The plane's mostly apart right now so I've no idea what the weight might
come out like after the rebuild but 1,800 + sounded high. I don't see any bomb racks
laying around either. I'll be real weight conscious on the rebuild though and will try to keep
the engine weight down with ...

'Some more drivel from my findings today on my new purchase.

A nice letter from Theron Rinehart of the Fairchild Republic Company of Hagerstown
dated Feb 16, 1983 confirmed that DAE was indeed one of a batch of 509 UC-61A
aircraft built for the US AAC under contract W-535-ac-28355. Ser no. 43 ...

'Thanks for the congrats, Jim. I haven't gotten into the books long
enough to find the mod for the aluminum stringers. We did check today and
it looks as if we have aluminum stringers all round the fuselage though.

It took most of the day to get the engine off and as the weather's been real ...

'Prince George, BC.

David Stroud, Ottawa, Canada
Christavia C-FDWS
F24 C-FDAE in restoration

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From: "Chief Russell"
To:
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 10:44 PM
Subject: [fairchildclub] RE: [Fairchild club] F24 fuselage stringers


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> Dave ...

'Lads my F24 ( in need of full restoration ) arrived today and I can't say how please I am
to have it. The right wing is shot as was indicated by the seller but the fuselage is in great
shape. One thing I noticed was that someone else had his hand in some restoration earlier
and contrary to what ...

'And please excuse my clumsiness while we're at it. I had intended to send my request
to John Berendt directly and sent it too the list instead. My apologies.

David Stroud, Ottawa, Canada
Christavia C-FDWS
Fairchild 24 enroute for restoration

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From: "John Wyss ...

'Giday, John. looks like I'm going to become a Fairhchilder sooner than expected.
I've got a very rebuildable 24W coming from British Columbia getting shipped tomorrow.
I would very much like to buy an Ops manual too. I can't remember if you take paypal
or not but if so, I could get you the money ...