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06/05/2004. Remarks by Dave Simpson: "This particular model appears to be one of 12 YO-27 airframes (31-587 to 592) built after Atlantic Aircraft Corporation had been restructured as Fokker Aircraft Corporation in 1926. The Fokker ties were in turn severed in 1931 when General Aviation Manufacturing Corporation was formed to carry on after the 'Fokker wing disaster' earlier... (see below.) It is interesting to note that an additional 6 airframes were constructed as YB-8 models and were then in turn redesignated as Y1O-27 (31-598 to 603) by the US military while in use... There also appears to be two prototypes built as XO-27 (29-327) and XO-27A (29-328) but I have never seen pictures of either of these two aircraft. They apparently had geared engines and literature says redesigned canopies and tails... but redesigned from what????" (The "Fokker wing disaster" refers to a crash of a Fokker aircraft carrying Knute Rockne.) |
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