Fairchild 24

what is it?

The Fairchild Model 24, also called the Fairchild Model 24 Argus and UC-61 Forwarder, is a four-seat, single-engine monoplane light transport aircraft designed by the Fairchild Aviation Corporation in the 1930s. It was adopted by the United States Army Air Corps as UC-61 and also by the Royal Air Force. The Model 24 was itself a development of previous Fairchild models and became a successful civil and military utility aircraft.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · 11.1 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 200 km/htop speed
• range 748 kmwithout refuelling
• size 1,307 kgmax take-off weight
• built 2,232made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 94 years ago, in 1932.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 11.1 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1932

introduced

1932

status

still flying

number built

2,232

role

stol bush plane

makers

Fairchild

engines

1× Ranger L-440-5

length

7.3 m

wingspan

11.1 m

height

2.3 m

max take-off weight

1,307 kg

top speed

200 km/h

range

748 km

ceiling

3,871 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.