From Aero Digest, April, 1935
Fairchild Aircraft Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland
• Five-place low-wing monoplane. Jacobs engine, 225 horsepower. Span 39 ft. 6 in. Length overall 28 ft. 11 in. Height overall 8 ft. Wing area 244 sq. ft. Chord 90 in. Power loading 15 Ibs.jh.p. Wing loading 14.75 lbs./sq. ft.
Empty weight 2156 Ibs. Useful load 1444 Ibs. Payload 880 lbs. Gross weight 3600 lbs. Fuel capacity 60 gals. Oil capacity 4.5 gals. Maximum speed 170 m.p.h. Cruising speed 156 m.p.h. Landing speed 48 m.p.h. Rate of climb 640 ft. per min. Cruising range 600 miles.
Fuselage: fabric covered: welded steel tubing; tandem seating arrangement, three passengers in rear; entrance doors on both sides of ship, one leading to front seats, the other to the rear seats; baggage compartment directly in front of rear seat underneath floor, with access to it by a trap-door arrangement. Wing: fabric covered; center section, extending on both sides of the fuselage and covered with corrugated aluminum alloy, consists of two aluminum alloy beams made up in the form of extrusions fitted with sheet webs and compression members; spars, box section type, spruce, connected to center section beams through aluminum alloy laminations; all-metal ribs, trussed type, flaps extend from aileron to aileron and are manually operated.
Tail group: fabric covered; cantilever type; manufactured of aluminum alloy; stabilizer adjustable by tabs. Retractable landing gear mechanically or electrically operated from the cockpit; retraction is through screw and nut arrangement which bends the back supporting strut as the gear is pulled up to the rear; equipped with either Goodyear airwheels, Autofan low pressure or full streamline tires, brakes and oil and spring shock absorbers.
Provision has been made for the installation of landing lights, flares, radio with bonding and shielding, Sperry gyro-horizon, Sperry directional gyro.
Instruments: oil temperature gauge, oil pressure gauge, air speed indicator, altimeter, tachometer, compass, fuel gauges, voltmeter, ammeter, bank and turn indicator.