History of AirplanesThe Fairchild XC-31 was an experimental cargo aircraft built for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Note the retractable landing gear on this large, strut-braced monoplane. Fairchild XC-31 (Kreider-Reisner): The large XC-31, built by the Kreider-Reisner division of Fairchild aircraft was used, in part, for icing studies while with the NACA at Langley. This is the [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Fairchild 24 equipped with floats. East Boston airport, July 21, 1936in front of Shobe Airlines hangar.
The Fairchild Model 24, a four-seat, single-engine monoplane, was in production from 1932 - 1946; altogether 2,232 were built. As a light transport aircraft used by the US Army Air Corps, it was designated UC-61. The Model 24 [...]
From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Fairchild Aircraft Corporation, Hagerstown, Maryland
• Two-place open high-wing monoplane. Warner Super Scarab engine, 145 horsepower. Span 33 feet. Length overall 22 feet 3 inches. Height overall 7 feet II inches. Wing area 173 square feet. Power loading 14.5 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 12.4 pounds per square foot.
Empty weight 1240 pounds. [...]
The Fairchild 22 was built Fairchild’s Kreider-Reisner division in Hagerstown, Maryland. K-R had been building Kinner-powered biplanes, but when the depression struck, these planes were too expensive and were not selling well. Fairchild responded with a simpler and inexpensive, open-cockpit, parasol-wing design: the Fairchild 22. Appearing in 1931 and initially selling [...]