Thread: Upcoming models
View Single Post
 
Old 01-30-2023, 11:36 AM
Don Boose's Avatar
Don Boose Don Boose is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Posts: 20,748
Total Downloaded: 424.90 MB
NC-14141 in white? or cream? and red? livery is a good-looking airplane. According to Joseph Juptner, it was originally NX-14141 (Stinson C/N 9100) and was the Model A prototype (US Civil Aircraft, Vol. 6, Aero Publishers 1974, extract on Stinson Model A available at chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/http://www.goldenwingsmuseum.com/collection/Aircraft%20Info%20Sheets/Stinson%206000-A.pdf).

It later flew with American Airlines in their dark blue and orange livery (Chicago Municipal Airport - American Airlines - Stinson Mo… | Flickr) and was written off in a crash in 1936 (Incident Stinson Model A NC14141, 26 May 1936).

A Model A (NC 15165) that once flew for Pennsylvania-Central Airlines is being (or has been) restored: Stinson Model A: Restoring a Classic Aircraft – Disciples of Flight

The prototype, one of the Central Air Lines aircraft, and one in the American Airlines livery would make a nice bundle (and, as Murph pointed out in his original post on this theme, the Model A also flew in Australia with Airlines of Australia and Australia National Airways and in India with Tata Airline): Stinson Model A - Wikipedia.

Don

Last edited by Don Boose; 01-30-2023 at 11:50 AM.
Reply With Quote