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NC6382K
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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: |
611 |
| Manufacturing
Date: |
1947-04-?? |
| Engine: |
Franklin
6A8-215-B9F (215 HP at 2500 RPM)
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| Remarks: |
Mode
S codes: 52057034 / A85E1C |
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| Reg.
No. |
Date |
Remarks |
| NC6382K |
1947-04-?? |
Manufacturing
Date. |
| 1947-04-?? |
Test
flight. |
| 1947-04-14 |
Officially
delivered from Republic Aviation Corporation to Safair Flying School;
New York, NY, USA. |
| 1947-06-27 |
C
of R issued to:
Bruno Chiarello; 61st Street 1006, North Bergen, NJ 07047. |
| 1947-12-10 |
Hackensack
River, Mill Creek, New Jersey, USA.
PILOT IN FATAL CRASH
ACCUSED IN 2 DEATHS
SECAUCUS, N. J., Dec. 11 - Alexander Kahan, 29 years old, of 315 West
Ninety-fourth Street, New York, pilot of a small seaplane, was
arrested here early today on two police charges of vehicular
manslaughter as the result of an aerial collision yesterday in which
two men were killed.
The second plane involved, a four-seater
Seabee, was being flown by Bruno Chiarello, 23, of North Bergen. He
and Henry Leber, 65, the owner of the Seabee, plunged to death after
the crash, which occurred about eighty feet above the Hackensack
River, opposite Mill Creek. Kahan, who was flying an Aeronca, escaped
with a bruised wrist. He is a student under the GI educational program
at the North American Seaplane Base, Little Ferry, and has twenty
hours of solo flying.
Mr. Leber operated an undertaking
establishment in Union City and employed Mr. Chiarello, a former Army
flier, as a pilot and as an assistant in his business.
The planes came together as the Seabee was
taking off and the Aeronca was coming down. As the craft were moving
in the same direction, witnesses told the Secaucus police, the
Seabee's engine, high on the wing, locked momentarily with a pontoon
of the Aeronca above it. After they separated the Seabee nose-dived
and landed on its back in the water, and the Aeronca sideslipped and
landed up-right.
[The New York Times; December 11, 1947]
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| 1955-10-17 |
Cancelled from CAA Aircraft Register. |
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Sources: |
RAC
Seabee Delivery List.
FAA Aircraft Registry.
Barry Collman.
Matt Miller. |
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