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Identify an Engine for a Museum

300 H and H

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Re: Identify and Engine for a Museum

I think it is a Fairchild air craft engine that is upside down from it's running postition...

I may have seen one of these recently at the Iowa State fair in an old engine exibit. If it were not this engine it is remarkably similar...

Regards, Kirk
 

BigAl

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Hows this ?
 

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BigAl

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Its a fairchild engine . Type in Fairchild engine and hit images .
 

idontexist

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You guys are amazing, thank you so much, this thing has been the subject of much rumour ;)

One more favor....


Since this is for the Museum up here in the Yukon and we are working bit by on providence, is there a database or paid service where we can confirm the specific plane it belonged to ? Does NAVCAN or FAA have this capacity maybe ?

This appears not to go back too far. http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/country_inquiry.aspx

Thanks

Chris
 

300 H and H

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BTW,

The engine I am familiar with here has a crank start feature I had not seen before. You crack a crank to wind up a spring, then trip a release to use the spring to spin the engine. The engine here started up instanly at an idle....

The Wiki links has a list of military training aircraft this engine was used in back when.. I think I would start by eliminating those down to your most likely candidate. Good luck.

Regards, Kirk
 
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