JACQUES TREMPE COLLECTION
No. 2466. Curtiss 50C Robin C-1 (CF-AHE c/n 522) Amos Air Service
No. 2466. Fairchild FC-2 (G-CANB c/n 62) Amos Air Service
Photographed at Malartic, Quebec, Canada, 1937, from Guy Allard

Curtiss 50C Robin C-1 and Fairchild FC-2
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07/31/2013. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "In 1928, the Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Corporation, a division of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, was formed in St. Louis. Its factory had 110,000 sq.ft (10,219 sq.m) of floor space. This division specialized in small monoplanes, and its first product was the Curtiss Model 50 Robin, a high-wing monoplane.

Within a twelve-month period, the Robin shattered two world endurance records. In the summer of 1929 a Robin, flown by Dale Jackson and Forrest O'Brine, remained in the air for more than 420 hours. In August 1930 these men flew a similar machine for 647 hours 28 minutes 30 seconds.

The three-seat Robin was conventional in every respect, having fixed gear, welded chrome-molybdenum steel tube framing for the fuselage, which was fabric covered. The Robin could mount either a 185 hp Curtiss Challenger (which powered the record-breaking machine) or a 165 hp Wright Whirlwind."

Read the Robin type remarks on page 10524.

06/30/2015. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "Guy Allard's uncle Jacques Allard flew to Malartic aboard the pictured Fairchild FC-2.

The aircraft had been built in 1928 and was registered to the Fairchild Airplane Mfg Corporation as NC4082. It was sold to Canada and registered to Canadian Airways Ltd. as G-CANB on May 5, 1928. Next owner was Latcham Air Ways Ltd. (which was subsequently renamed Air-Tec Flying Services Ltd.), then Nipigeon Air Ways, then W.J. Davis of Amos Air Services.

After an incident in 1934 the aircraft was rebuilt with the fuselage from the last (as spare parts-built) FC-2 from Canadian Vickers. While at Fish Lake, Ontario, on December 20, 1937, the aircraft went through the ice. Subsequently freezing water split the fuselage tubing and the aircraft was written off. The wings were used to repair C-CAIU (c/n 107), which had been damaged by fire at Senneterre, Quebec, on December 12, 1937."

Read the FC-2 type remarks on page 4447.

02/28/2016. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "Amos Air Service was owned by Bill Davis and the landing strip was located at the extremity of the 1st Avenue, the strip was in use from 1934 to 1941. The office was located at the hotel Chateau Inn."


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