Friends,
Does anyone in WIXer brain trust know anything about this PT-19 with a crabbing landing gear?
For in the e-Bay photos I bought, it probably is the same cool looking black with red (?) trim painted ship. Knowing that it has a civilian NX registration now makes it fit into the same time fame as the rest of the photos taken at Fairfax Airport, Kansas City c.a. summer of 1942 and not post war.
On the back is written “Howard Trainer” which may be a clue about the crabbing modification for Howard Aircraft of Chicago was part of the manufacturing consortium that built PT-19/PT-23s. Maybe they had something to do with this modification?
Fairfax Airport was easy to identify with the hanger of Mid-Continent Airlines in background in this photo. On the back of the photo is written: “Left side-1. Douglas PT-2BG 2. Stearman PT-11D Right Side- 1. Curtiss P-12E, 2. Curtiss P-6E, 3. Douglas O-38E.”
The Douglas PT-2B
R aka A-4 drone was the reason I bought the set, the other errors in his notation are the planes are a
Consolidated PT-11D and a
Boeing P-12E. How a Curtiss P-6E lasted till 1942 is a good question for I have several photos of them as instructional airframes at mechanics schools but none are listed on Material Division’s June 1940 inventory list.
The aircraft above are class 26 instructional airframes for the mechanics of the Missouri Aviation Institute which by shear good luck I found this photo on the internet of the rest of the hanger that is seen in the above photo. As side note the B-25 in the photo was not built at Kansas City.
By the exhaust stains on this B-25 it maybe the same ship as seen above.
On the back of this photo of these PQ-8 taxing by is written “More mosquitoes”. Good name for the Culver PQ-8.
An Aeronca L-3B tired down for the day.
Looks like a hot day by the banks of the Missouri River for this person under the wing of this A-17.
Best regards to you all,
Tom Michel
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