Category Airplanes

1988 Sportfire (Spitfire replica)

1988 Sportfire (Spitfire replica) on display at the Western North Carolina Air Museum in Hendersonville, NC.

The Sportfire is a single-place, single-engine, low-wing cantilever monoplane, with fixed tailwheel-type landing gear. No flaps are fitted. The cockpit is enclosed by a sliding (military-style) bubble canopy and a fixed windshield. This airplane was designed to obtain the best possible…

1977 Parker Air Racer

1977 Parker Air Racer on display at the Western North Carolina Air Museum in Hendersonville, NC.

Parker Air Racer History, Facts and Specs as related by its original crew chief: Bill Rogers. The “Wild Turkey” (the Parker’s original race name) was designed by a Brit, John Cook, who was designing and building a four-place Cherokee replacement…

1958 Corbin Junior Ace E

1958 Corbin Junior Ace on display at the Western North Carolina Air Museum in Hendersonville, NC.

The Ace Junior Ace is a single-seat sports aircraft that has been offered by the Ace Aircraft Manufacturing Company in kit and plans form for home building since the early 1930s. It is a parasol-wing monoplane of conventional taildragger configuration.…

1946 Fairchild 24R

1946 Fairchild 24R on display at the Western North Carolina Air Museum in Hendersonville, NC.

The Fairchild Model 24, is a four-seat, single-engine monoplane light transport aircraft that was used by the United States Army Air Corps as the UC-61 and by the Royal Air Force. The Model 24 was itself a development of previous…