Fairchild Aircraft (MD) (Images of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (677 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738544396 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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With this volume, they treat readers to a flight into aviation history. About the Author Frank and Suanne Woodring, authors of Arcadia’s Images of America: Pen Mar and publishers of the Maryland Cracker Barrel magazine, are former educators in Washington County, Maryland.
. With this volume, they treat readers to a flight into aviation history. Frank and Suanne Woodring, authors of Arcadia’s Images of America: Pen Mar and publishers of the Maryland Cracker Barrel magazine, are former educators in Washington County, Maryland
Fairchild Aircraft. Nice backgroud story on the C-119 which I have over fifty parachute jumps from. Not a big fan of the C-123 but now all the aircraft I knew in my youth sit in a museum somewhere.. Four Stars gordon foster Excellent, very good information.. My husband loved it! My husband, who hung around airplanes and airports in the '30s and My husband loved it! Pilot's Wife My husband, who hung around airplanes and airports in the '30s and 40's, liked this best of the six books he received for Christmas. It has loads of pictures and interesting information about Fairchild.. 0's, liked this best of the six books he received for Christmas. It has loads of pictures and interesting information about Fairchild.
When Orville Wright made the first successful flight of an airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, no one could have envisioned the impact that the historic occasion would have on Hagerstown, Maryland, and the tri-state area of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. By the spring of 1944, Fairchild had manufactured more than 5,000 of the primary trainers, which became synonymous with the city of Hagerstown. Over the course of its history in Hagerstown, Fairchild employed more than 50,000 men and women in the manufacture of military and civilian aircraft.. When Sherman M. Army Air Corps. In 1939, the companywas awarded a contract to build 270 PT-19 trainers for the U.S. Air Force. Fairchild’s contribution to the world of aviation unoffic