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 Post subject: 1929 Fleet Model 1 PIREP
PostPosted: 08 Nov 2024, 22:13 
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I've written a pilot report about flying the Fleet Model 1 powered by a Warner 145 radial on my website here:

https://dreamwacos.com/2024/11/08/flyin ... t-model-1/


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 Post subject: Re: 1929 Fleet Model 1 PIREP
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Location: 13FA Earle Airpark FL/0A7 Hville NC
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This one (serial #213) is now housed at the Western North Carolina Air Museum next door to me in Hendersonville.

It had just gone through a multi year complete restoration and the owner landed it here on the grass runway on his way home. It had a brake failure and went off the side of the runway gently into a ditch with no damage except a wet bottom part of the engine. I helped coordinate the donation and did the appraisal for him.

It went through the flood OK with water in the main hangar only getting about knee deep.

Aircraft of this age are commonly assembled from surviving parts from multiple aircraft. This aircraft is probably the most original and best documented example of the type of the total of 5 known to be in existence in the world.

List of the other 5 Fleet Model 1 that are known to exist currently:

Israel
* 200 – Model 1 airworthy at Paradive Aviation Gallery at Habonim Airstrip. It is registered as 4X-AAF, was manufactured in 1929, and is powered with a Kinner B-5 radial engine.
Paraguay
* E-15 – Model 2 airworthy with the Yvytu Flight Club. It was donated Paraguayan Air Force in 1990. It was formerly registered as ZP-EAL.
United States
* 181 – Model 2 on static display at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tuscon At. It is in the markings of Gilpen & Greenway Air Lines, Tucson, Arizona 1934.
* 229 – Model 2 airworthy at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach Va. It is registered as NC636M and is in the markings of United Air Services of Burbank, California.
* 233 – Model 1 airworthy with David Trost of Westchester NY.

Apparently yours didn’t turn up in my research.


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 Post subject: Re: 1929 Fleet Model 1 PIREP
PostPosted: 09 Nov 2024, 09:31 
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Aircraft of this age are commonly assembled from surviving parts from multiple aircraft. This aircraft is probably the most original and best documented example of the type of the total of 5 known to be in existence in the world.

List of the other 5 Fleet Model 1 that are known to exist currently:

Israel
* 200 – Model 1 airworthy at Paradive Aviation Gallery at Habonim Airstrip. It is registered as 4X-AAF, was manufactured in 1929, and is powered with a Kinner B-5 radial engine.
Paraguay
* E-15 – Model 2 airworthy with the Yvytu Flight Club. It was donated Paraguayan Air Force in 1990. It was formerly registered as ZP-EAL.
United States
* 181 – Model 2 on static display at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tuscon At. It is in the markings of Gilpen & Greenway Air Lines, Tucson, Arizona 1934.
* 229 – Model 2 airworthy at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach Va. It is registered as NC636M and is in the markings of United Air Services of Burbank, California.
* 233 – Model 1 airworthy with David Trost of Westchester NY.

Apparently yours didn’t turn up in my research.


Norman,

The FAA database lists 14 Model 1's. I detail the history of my plane on my website here:

https://dreamwacos.com/fleet-model-1/

My plane was originally a Model 2 but was re-engined in the 1930's and the type certificate modifed to a Model 1 at that time. You're right about antiques usually being a collection of survivor parts, especially when you consider engines, props and flight instruments. My plane's essentials have been together since at least the 1940's and most likely, based on its documented history, much longer.


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