Received a call from an acquaintance last night with an interesting request as I'm the only Stude guy he knows (man, is he in trouble).
He is restoring a 1946 or 47 Fairchild airplane. I think it may be a model 24 but am not positive. Anyway, he needs the window crank handles and interior door handles. He has been told by a fellow Fairchild guy at the Oshkosh air show that Fairchild used Studebaker handles but he wasn't sure of what year or model Stude they would have been used on. He has no handles now for reference. My questions are:
Does anyone have any insight on this? Did 39/40 Champion handles differ from other models of the same year and/or were the posts at least the same? Up until when? (I have ratty '40 handles for him to see if they fit). He says one handle has a round post, the other is square, but he didn't recall which was which. I may go and eyeball the plane this weekend.
I searched the internet for some decent Fairchild interior cabin pics but apparently photographing one's handles is not a high priority for airplane restorers.
This is the best one I found and I can't say if these handles are correct. Doesn't that interior door handle look more like an exterior handle?
BShaw,Webmaster
60 Hawk. 49 2R5, 39 Champion
Woodbury, Minnesota
He is restoring a 1946 or 47 Fairchild airplane. I think it may be a model 24 but am not positive. Anyway, he needs the window crank handles and interior door handles. He has been told by a fellow Fairchild guy at the Oshkosh air show that Fairchild used Studebaker handles but he wasn't sure of what year or model Stude they would have been used on. He has no handles now for reference. My questions are:
Does anyone have any insight on this? Did 39/40 Champion handles differ from other models of the same year and/or were the posts at least the same? Up until when? (I have ratty '40 handles for him to see if they fit). He says one handle has a round post, the other is square, but he didn't recall which was which. I may go and eyeball the plane this weekend.
I searched the internet for some decent Fairchild interior cabin pics but apparently photographing one's handles is not a high priority for airplane restorers.
This is the best one I found and I can't say if these handles are correct. Doesn't that interior door handle look more like an exterior handle?BShaw,Webmaster
60 Hawk. 49 2R5, 39 Champion
Woodbury, Minnesota
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