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    Airframe Family: Fairchild 51 / 61 / 71 / FC-1 / FC-2
    Latest Model:FC-2W2
    Construction Number:35
    Last Civil Registration:N3569
    Latest Owner or Location:EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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    Dates

    Event

    1927

    Constructed as a FC-2W2.

    November 1927

    To Curtiss Flying Service, Chicago, IL with c/r NC3569.

    1928

    To Interstate Airways.

    1928

    To American Airways.

    From 1928 to 1929

    Flew Chicago to Atlanta route.

    To unknown owner.
    Three owners after American Airways, stored by third.

    1939

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored in shed in Dunweg, MO.

    1961

    To Herb Harcom.

    1961

    Restoration started.

    August 1963

    Restoration completed.

    22 August 1963

    Certificate of airworthiness for N3569 (FC-2-W2, 35) issued.

    22 August 1963

    To Herb Harcom with c/r N3569.

    23 August 1963

    First post-restoration Flight.

    From August 1963 to July 1969

    Herb took the Fairchild to numerous fly-ins and air shows throughout the Midwest where he won a total of 30 trophies.

    17 July 1969

    Ferry flight. Delivered to EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States.

    22 April 1970

    Certificate of airworthiness for N3569 (FC-2-W2, 35) issued.

    10 March 1983

    To EAA Aviation Foundation Inc, Oshkosh, WI.

    Based at EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    16 September 1988


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    25 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    25 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    24 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: at 2011 Oshkosh

    To EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Air Venture Museum by Experimental Aircraft Association
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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