Fairchild 91

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name=Model 91, A-942


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type=Flying boat airliner
manufacturer=Fairchild
designer=Alfred Gassner
first flight=5 April avyear|1935
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primary user=Pan Am
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number built=7
variants with their own articles=The Fairchild 91, later redesignated A-942, was a small flying boat airliner developed in the United states in the mid-1930s. Fairchild designed the aircraft in response to a Pan Am request for a small flying boat to operate on their river routes along the Amazon and Yangtze. The result was a conventional high-wing cantilever monoplane with its radial engine mounted above the wing in a streamlined nacelle. Before construction of the prototype was complete, however, Pan Am no longer required the aircraft to operate in China, and Fairchild modified the design to optimise it for the tropical conditions of Brazil.

After the first two aircraft were delivered, Pan Am cancelled the remaining four aircraft on its order, discovering that the two aircraft they had already purchased were capable of handling their entire Amazon River demand; the Model 91 had become a victim of its own success. Fairchild completed the other four airframes under the designation A-942, selling two to private owners, and exporting the other two to Japan. One of the private owners was naturalist Richard Archbold, who used it on his second expedition to New Guinea in 1936-37. The prototype was sold to the Spanish Republican Air Force, but was captured by the Spanish Nationalists and was used by them until 1938. One of the privately-owned A-942s served with the RAF in Egypt for a time.

pecifications (A-942-A)

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crew=Two pilots
capacity=8 passengers
length m=13.00
length ft=42
length in=8
span m=17.07
span ft=56
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height m=4.47
height ft=14
height in=8
wing area sqm=44.9
wing area sqft=483
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empty weight kg=2,992
empty weight lb=6,596
gross weight kg=4,763
gross weight lb=10,500
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eng1 type=Pratt & Whitney R-1690
eng1 kw= 600
eng1 hp= 800
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max speed kmh=269
max speed mph=167
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range km=1,070
range miles=665
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ceiling m=4,755
ceiling ft=15,600
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climb rate ms=4.3
climb rate ftmin=840
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