Re: Warner 165 Gasket question

[Mueller, Charles]

'After the GL I bought a project Fairchild PT-26. It had a cleaned up fuselage frame, and wing panels (that I eventually replaced) and lots of boxes. Turned out that all the pieces were included. Spent 14 years picking on the rebuild, but it came out real nice. Flies like a gentleman. It went to the UK in 1943 on the WW II lend-lease program for training, so I put it back in the Canadian yellow color and symbols of the time.



There are a couple of photos of it in the group picture files, has FV342 on the fuselage sides. I found out later that is the the wrong number, but I’m not going to change it now.



The GL I had is a 1929, s/n 136, though the feds records indicate is a 1928. It used to be N875K, but was changed to N333H when a Lycoming 360 was put on it. I don’t think there was any 1928 production. Mine was owned by the Ryan Aircraft Company in the early 30s. Ryan had a fleet of them for training. Yours might have been there too. The San Diego Air & Space Museum has the Ryan records and they were nice enough to look that up for me. The ownership records I got from the Feds indicate the same thing.



I did find an early 1930s ad from Ryan about getting a transport license in the GL for $3950 and you got to keep the airplane! Guess the looming stock market crash had them reducing their holdings. If you would like a copy I'll look for it.



Charles'