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NC87461
Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, USA
July 1946
Photo: © Republic Aviation Corporation / Mike Machat Collection
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AIRCRAFT DATA |
| Manufacturer: |
Republic
Aviation Corporation; Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, USA. |
| Model: |
RC-3
Seabee |
| Type
Certificate No: |
A-769 |
| Serial
Number: |
11 |
| Manufacturing
Date: |
1946-??-?? |
| Engine: |
Franklin 6A8-215-B8F (215 HP at 2500 RPM)
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| Remarks: |
Mode
S codes:
53004166 / AC0876 (N87461) |
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| Reg.
No. |
Date |
Remarks |
NX87461
NC87461 |
1946-??-?? |
Manufacturing
Date. |
| 1946-??-?? |
First
test flight. |
| 1946-07-15 |
C
of R issued to:
Republic Aviation Corporation; Farmingdale, New York. |
| 1946-11-14 |
C
of R issued to:
W. H. Marden Airways, Inc.; Municipal Airport, Waterville, Maine. |
| 1946-11-15 |
Officially
delivered from Republic Aviation Corporation to Marden Airways, Inc.;
Waterville, Maine, USA. |
| 1947-02-28 |
C
of R issued to:
Paul K. Dudley dba Dudley Aviation Sales Co.; 87 Water Street,
Fitchburg, MA. |
| 1947-09-07 |
Crashed
at George Fitch Farm, north of Potter, New York.
Three Victims Of Air Crash
in Hospital Here
Three Fitchburg, Mass. men were injured yesterday when their four
passenger plane went out of control and crashed in a field near Potter.
Paul Kenneth Dudley, 30, and Norman Larabee,
30, of Fitchburg, Mass., were reported in fair condition in Thompson
hospital today by Dr. Charles L. Bobeck, their physician. A third
Fitchburg man, Richard Garvey, 18, was reported to be in good condition.
The trio was injured yesterday when a four passenger Seabee amphibian
plane, owned and piloted by Dudley, crashed on the George Fitch farm
north of Potter.
Dudley received a fractured skull and shoulder
girdle, several broken ribs and a deep forehead laceration. Larabee
received multiple fractures of the right leg and foot and body bruises.
Garvey suffered a fractured right leg, lacerations of the right leg and
left hand and a cerebral concussion of the brain. All are suffering from
shock.
According to Trooper William Keeley, BCI
investigator, the plane fell from an elevation of about 1,200 feet and
was completely demolished. Dudley told Keeley that he was flying between
1,200 and 1,300 feet and lost control of the plane when it hit a
vertical gust of air. A number of nearby farmers witnessed the accident.
Injured were treated at the crash scene by Dr.
F. M. Chaffee of Middlesex and then taken to Thompson Hospital by car
and ambulance.
Cpl. Frank Donovan and Trooper A. B. Ryder of
Penn Yan substation assisted Keeley in the investigation. The Civil
Aeronautics Administration of Rochester has been notified.
[The Daily Messenger, Canandaigua, N.
Y., Monday, September 8, 1947]
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| 1948-02-06 |
Cancelled
from CAA Aircraft Register.
"It has been decided by us that this aircraft can not be
satisfactorily repaired therefore it has been dismantled in such a way
that it will never be in flight again".
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Sources: |
RAC
Seabee Delivery List.
FAA Aircraft Registry.
Barry Collman.
Matt Miller.
Mike Machat. |
NX87461
Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, USA
1946
Photo: © Republic Aviation Corporation / Steinar Saevdal Collection
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