Re: unknown Fairchild

[theflabobian]

'Hey guys I need some help!!!!!
I came across a basket case, It's a very do able project.
I need to find out which aircraft this is I have no documentation.
I have the following questions?
Is there any where on the frame that would have the serial # (No data
plate)
I had someone look at it and told me it is a 1937 model. Has a ranger
mount that is part of the fuselage.
Have done a little reaserch between 1935 and 1939 135 ranger powered
A/C were produced.
I looked at current registrations in Ca and was not much help?
Ideas, Any body want to buy this treasure?
Thanks Dave'

[Tom Mueller]

'Dave,
No stamping on airframes. I don't know of any model that did that.
Did you say, there's no tail number anywhere.? Look closely at the
dash. Some Fairchild's made for the Armed Forces had a small placard
which read "RADIO CALL" then the machines tail number was under that.
If you can't come up with any paper work, not even a County Tax
assessment form, or insurance form, you're kinda stuck. How about some
details on this mystery ship.
Tom
Hanford,Ca'

[William T. Larkins]

'Dave:
Do you have any idea where it was located, i.e. what State? And/or an
owners name, especially before World War II. That would be a major clue
for me.
That's a great teaser!
Bill L
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> [Original Message]
> From: theflabobian
> To:
> Date: 11/29/2007 5:09:01 PM
> Subject: [fairchildclub] unknown Fairchild
>
> Hey guys I need some help!!!!!
> I came across a basket case, It's a very do able project.
> I need to find out which aircraft this is I have no documentation.
> I have the following questions?
> Is there any where on the frame that would have the serial # (No data
> plate)
> I had someone look at it and told me it is a 1937 model. Has a ranger
> mount that is part of the fuselage.
> Have done a little reaserch between 1935 and 1939 135 ranger powered
> A/C were produced.
> I looked at current registrations in Ca and was not much help?
> Ideas, Any body want to buy this treasure?
> Thanks Dave
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

'

[james chybicki]

'Hi Dave
If the Ranger mount is part of the fuselage metal
frame, it's a pre-war model. If the rear window frame
is still intact, you can figure a '35-38 year model if
the rear window rounds down. If the round part is on
the bottom of the rear window it's could have been
built after 1939.
If you can share pictures with the group, I am sure
someone will be able to identify it immediately.

Our 1943 UC-61K had a USAAF serial number stamped on
the Steel tube located on the passenger side door
frame at the bottom.

Hope that helps a little

Jim Chybicki
UC-61K
USAAF:43-14964
RAF:HB690

--- theflabobian wrote:

> Hey guys I need some help!!!!!
> I came across a basket case, It's a very do able
> project.
> I need to find out which aircraft this is I have no
> documentation.
> I have the following questions?
> Is there any where on the frame that would have the
> serial # (No data
> plate)
> I had someone look at it and told me it is a 1937
> model. Has a ranger
> mount that is part of the fuselage.
> Have done a little reaserch between 1935 and 1939
> 135 ranger powered
> A/C were produced.
> I looked at current registrations in Ca and was not
> much help?
> Ideas, Any body want to buy this treasure?
> Thanks Dave
>
>

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[William T. Larkins]

'Dave: A further comment. It is my understanding from talks with many
aircraft owners that in order to license a plane with the FAA you must have
a Bill of Sale and it must have an identifying serial number on it. That is
what has caused so many surplus military aircraft to have the serial number
from a different airplane for which the owner has paperwork. This can be a
minor inconvenience to the owner but does cause those us of interested in
individual aircraft history to have fits.....
Bill L
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> [Original Message]
> From: theflabobian
> To:
> Date: 11/29/2007 5:09:01 PM
> Subject: [fairchildclub] unknown Fairchild
>
> Hey guys I need some help!!!!!
> I came across a basket case, It's a very do able project.
> I need to find out which aircraft this is I have no documentation.
> I have the following questions?
> Is there any where on the frame that would have the serial # (No data
> plate)
> I had someone look at it and told me it is a 1937 model. Has a ranger
> mount that is part of the fuselage.
> Have done a little reaserch between 1935 and 1939 135 ranger powered
> A/C were produced.
> I looked at current registrations in Ca and was not much help?
> Ideas, Any body want to buy this treasure?
> Thanks Dave
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

'

[tonyb42uk]

'--- In fairchildclub@yahoogroups.com, "William T. Larkins"
wrote:

>

This can be a minor inconvenience to the owner but does cause those
us of interested in individual aircraft history to have fits.....
Bill L

>

Bill,
I could not agree more!!

Thanks for posting some of your superb pre-war Fairchild pictures.

After the end of WW.2 Bill took hundreds of photographs of the
thousands of Army and Navy aircraft being stored for surplus sale in
California and Arizona.

For those who do not already know, the much reproduced image of PT-26
FH664 with oil streaming from the cowling was taken by Bill in
December 1946. He had hitched a ride with a flight of five ex-RCAF
Cornells on part of the ferry flight from Canada to a War Assets
storage and sales center at Ontario, California when a slow roll by
one of the ferry revealed FH664 was flying with loose oil cap!

FH664 joined the ranks of the many lend-Lease Cornells to find new
owners in the USA and abroad. This aircraft has long since vanished,
but I recall a few years ago FH664's Fairchild data plate was for
sale on Ebay.

Tony Broadhurst'