Last week we finally received the cylinders for our Fairchild F-24. The airplane has been sitting in the restoration hangar for quite a few months now without much more than a crankcase in front of the firewall.
The cylinders look great, and they’re all laid out in the shop waiting to be reassembled. Of course just as we were getting ready to put everything back together we thought it a good time to give the Flitfire Cub an annual. That turned into a bit more than anticipated and a few cylinders had to be pulled off the Continental as well. So now it’s getting crowded in the hangar with several airplanes awaiting cylinders.
The Fairchild should be back together soon and after some local exercise we hope to fly it out to Blakesburg for the annual Antique Airfield Fly-In. This year’s theme is Corporate Wings and there will be a number of antique corporate aircraft flying in from around the country. The Fairchild was bought new from the factory by the Civil Aeronautics Administration and served the agency as their corporate aircraft.
In the meantime, we’re trying to finalize the date for our annual corn roast fly-in next month and should have the date up on the website soon.
