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The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
- Thread starter Ferry_vO
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There is a brief mention on the aerofiles site and N8866 still appears on the FAA Register. In 2014 the aircraft was being offered for sale (barnstormers.com) and at that time was in the Lancaster, Ca. Milestones Of Flight Museum.
OH please and lets see who has the courage to keep us busy during the weekend
The Funk F-23, a lesser known agplane and about a dozen were produced.
The F-23 was developed from the Fairchild PT-19 (Fairchild M-62) trainer built during WW2 by Mr. Don Funk of the D.D Funk Aircraft Co, Inc (D. D. Funk Aviation Company?). Although the design was based on the PT-19’s airframe, the F-23 was essentially a new design with a raised single-seat cockpit, a larger fin and rudder unit and the new all metal construction wings (to accommodate the spraying equipment) featured a small increase in span and had a slight dihedral on the outer wing panels.
In 1970, the production rights for the F-23 were sold to Cosmic Aircraft, but no additional machines were built
musterpilot
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srgalahad
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http://www.airport-data.com/images/aircraft/small/000/005/005637.jpg
but I can't find any reference to a latter company or designer. Most annoying as my tired old memory chip can't recall where/when I recently looked at several photos of the high-wing.
srgalahad
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My bad...
fabulousfour
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There is a picture of the second photo from this mystery at the secretprojects-forum posted by a certain "walter", I will never guess who the person behind that alias could be.
I would love to offer the reward to srgalahad and that he offers the next mystery, without his help I definitely wouldn't have found this bird.
The high wing job may have been loosely based on the gas station design and indeed the canard is the SQ2000.
The SQ2000 was developed by Classic Composites, LLC (Mr. Montgomery) and when this company ceased operations, was continued by KLS Composites. I know of at least 7 N-numbers for SQ2000 aircraft. The high winger is the SUA-7 (Sport Utility Aircraft, 7-seats) with work being started by KLS Composites. In 2005 this became Advanced Composite Design, Inc, but development was halted in June 2007 when ACD ceased operations and the aircraft went into storage. The SUA-7 had a GM502 V8 engine and first flew during 2005. Soon (maybe before the first flight?) the original 41.333ft wing was replaced by a new 56ft wing. Registration was N3061L. Have no idea about her fate.
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