From Aero Digest, April, 1935
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Fairchild Aircraft Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland
• Ten-place high-wing amphibion. Pratt and Whitney Hornet S3Dl engine, 645 horsepower. Span 57 feet. Length overall 45 feet 9 inches. Height overall 15 feet 11 inches. Wing area 475 square feet. Power loading 13.2 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 17.9 pounds per square foot.
Empty weight 4972 pounds. Useful load 3372 pounds. Payload 1500 pounds. Gross weight 8344 pounds. Fuel capacity 170 gallons. Oil capacity 25 gallons.
Maximum speed 186 miles per hour. Cruising speed at sea level 155 miles per hour. Landing speed 63 miles per hour. Service ceiling 18,000 feet. Rate of climb 950 feet per minute. Cruising range 1500 miles.
Hull; all-metal; two-step type; eight seats, four of which are readily removable to provide space for express; plywood floor removable in sections; pilots’ compartment forward with side-by-side seating arrangement; passenger entrance in rear on top of after deck. Wing: all-metal, fabric covered; watertight outer panels; detachable wing tips; walkways on top center section to give access to the engine unit; all-metal, fabric covered flaps. Tail group: all-metal fabric covered. Retractable landing gear with provision for substituting skis for wheels. Engine in all-metal low drag cowling above hull and wing; complete unit detachable; nacelle structure of chrome molybdenum steel tubing. Plane controls operated by self-aligning ball bearings; engine controls preformed stainless steel control cables; Zerk fittings and hardened steel bushings used where ball bearings are not provided.
Standard equipment includes Hamilton Standard controllable-pitch propeller, batteries, shielding and bonding, snubbing post fastened to primary structure, anchor, casting line, fire extinguisher. Provision made for installation of Sperry gyropilot.
Instruments; Sperry directional gyro, Sperry gyro-horizon, Pioneer compass, sensitive altimeter, clock, tachometer, oil pressure gauge, fuel pressure gauge, air speed indicator and other flight and engine instruments.