Help identifying a center section... Cessna, Fairchild???

[gordonpagecolorado]

Any ideas on what type of twin engined plane this center section may have come from? It was located from Eastern Kansas and supposedly came from a former WWII airbase.
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[Obergrafeter]

Know what it isn't...........it is not an AT-10. That narrows it down.

[Steve Nelson]

I was thinking maybe Cessna UC-78 / T-50 "Bamboo Bomber," but these pics seem to rule that out..

SN

[N3Njeff]

Not bamboo bomber, that is in 3 easy sections all held together by a wood planked spar.



wish it were closer...................thinking Twin Beech. aka AT-11

[gordonpagecolorado]

Good comments so far and along the same lines I was thinking.
What does everyone think about this possibly being a Fairchild AT-21?
I don't have access to any cut-away drawings to see if it could be one.

Thanks again folks!

[Steve Nelson]

Hmmm...an AT-21 seems like a possibility. I couldn't find any pics of the internal structure, but here's a three-view.




I thought the type was completely extinct, but I found a website lists AT-21 42-40053 as stored disassembled and under restoration in Roanoke, TX (as of June, 2000 anyway.) In an October, 2004, WIX thread, Cvairwerks mentions having purchased an AT-21..maybe the same aircraft?


SN

[Eric Friedebach]

wish it were closer...................thinking Twin Beech.

I'm with Jeff.

Any larger pictures?

[planeoldsteve]

From Taigh Ramey's site www.twinbeech.com



Steve

[Nathan]

man, i wish i could find things like that. I know its junk but I would take it.

I also heard a story of someone in Gorgia using the canopy of a P-40 for a doghouse!

[Cvairwerks]

Steve: It's definately not AT-21 related. The only steel parts of any size in the center section are in the nacelle. There is a forward fuselage section that is steel tubing, and it extends from the rear spar to the nose gun mount. The main spars sit on top of the rear portion of the tubing and form the top of the bomb bays.

I bought the project in 1988 or 89 and moved it to my hangar at Roanoke. Due to job requirements and moving back and forth across the country and within Texas several times, it has remained in storage. With a change in ownership of the hangar that I was in, combined with being off work for most of 8 out of the last 12 months for medical reasons, we gave up the hangar and moved most of the stuff in it to a wharehouse. The forward fuselage and both nacelles are here at the house. When we can get fully recovered from the July flood damage I hope to find another bit of shop space and try to get back to work on it.

[skymstr02]

Its from a Beech model 18 (C-45, SNB, JRB, etc).

[Steve Nelson]

Thanks for the info, CV! Like I said, I thought the type was extinct..it's good to hear one has been preserved. It's actually kind of a neat looking little aircraft.

SN

[Obergrafeter]

NATHAN.......Blasphemy there is no such thing as aircraft junk. Fine previously owned aircraft parts is what you ment to say...right?

[planeoldsteve]

Can it be a Beech Model 26, AT-10, Wichita?

http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/UR ... chita.html

Steve

[Obergrafeter]

Steve....Nope see entry number two. The AT-10 had an all wood spar with the metal nacells attached.