Rose A-4 Parrakeet

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03/31/2008. This aircraft was manufactured by Hannaford and sold on May 1, 1950, to Roy D. Pavlik. It changed hands several times, and had the engine changed from the original Continental A-65 to a Continental C-85.

In 1959 it was purchased by Robert "Bob" A. Fabian of Peotone, Illinois, who flew it for three successive years at the AAA National Fly-In at Oskaloosa, winning the amateur aerobatic competition in 1960 and 1961. The aircraft was lost on September 4, 1961, the day after the Fly-In, when both right wings separated from the main fuselage. Bob Fabian parachuted to safety.


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03/31/2008. This aircraft was manufactured by Hannaford and sold on May 1, 1950, to Roy D. Pavlik. It changed hands several times, and had the engine changed from the original Continental A-65 to a Continental C-85. In 1959 it was purchased by Robert "Bob" A. Fabian of Peotone, Illinois, who flew it for three successive years at the AAA National Fly-In at Oskaloosa, winning the amateur aerobatic competition in 1960 and 1961. The aircraft was lost on September 4, 1961, the day after the Fly-In, when both right wings separated from the main fuselage. Bob Fabian parachuted to safety.