"RDA" wrote in message ...
Wow, AT21? What kind of shape is it in? What part of the country are you
in? Just curious. Used to have some V770 parts around the shop, mostly
ignition stuff.

Here's a link to Fairchild Field info with some photos if you haven't seen
it yet.. Went there as a kid back in the 60's.

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NC/....htm#fairchild

Hi Dave: Thanks for the website. I haven't seen those before. I'm
always looking for more documentaion on the aircraft. The Fairchild is
in extremely rough shape. A museum tried for nearly 15 years to work
out a deal with it's previous owner and rescue it from certain
destruction. About a year after someone stole the engines and
destroyed the mounts and shot hudreds of holes in the fuselage, they
were able to obtain it, but, by that point it was litterly falling
apart with sections being held together by the fabric covering. They
tried for several years to get Fairchild to help along with other
companies to try and rebuild it. They finally made the decision that
while it was in their hands, it would never get rebuilt. I cut an deal
wtih them to purchase the project and keep it from being destroyed
completely. I moved it to my hangar and had planned on starting the
rebuild with a goal of making Oshkosh 1995...well work and a couple of
aborted transfers have kept it stashed away since 1988. With the job
and family situation pretty well stabilized for the foreseeable
future, as soon as the new shop goes up, I will start building jigs
and fixtures and fabricating parts. The spars are going to be
financial monsters as the center section ones are over 30 feet long
and were fabbed out of full length pieces. Going to have to wait a
while to get to them....

Once we have the shop and are moved into it, I'll set up a webpage
with as many photos as I can. Also, by then I should be able to handle
a few visitors to the shop. Right now everything is scattered in
various friends' hangars and wharehouses.

Almost forgot, we are located in the DFW area and have lots of
homebuilt and warbird stuff going on on the numerous fields around the
area.