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Description
| Manufacturer: | Fairchild |
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| Base model: | PT-26 | ||
| Designation: | PT-26 | ||
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | ||
| Designation Period: | 1925-1947 | ||
| Basic role: | Primary Trainer | ||
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum | Mount Hope | Ontario |
| Historic Aircraft Restoration Projects | Brooklyn | New York |
| McClellan Aviation Museum | McClellan AFB | California |
| Pima Air & Space Museum | Tucson | Arizona |
| United States Air Force Museum | Wright-Patterson | Ohio |
PT-26 on display
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum | Historic Aircraft Restoration Projects | McClellan Aviation Museum | United States Air Force Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Sandy Sanders hudson, FL | Ronald McGill. I to purchased a PT-26 from windsor MIlls in 1949. The caretaker at the hangar was Shorty Lavois and he would do all sorts of things for a cqase of Molsons. CFFGJ was purchased for $300.00 and a case of Molsons. Airframe had 351 hrs total time and we located an engine in another airframe with only 50 hrs.I flew it home after week of preporatiom.
Sadly I Had a deadstick hard landing and tore the gear off. However I did have about 130 hrs on it. I had to change all the perspex due to discoloration. Thats a lot of little nuts and bolts. I still miss it. Sandy 11/27/2013 @ 11:48 [ref: 68190] |
| Ronald McGill South Windsor Ct., CT | In May of 1956 my brother and I bought a PT-26 that was stored in Windsor Mill Quebec Canada for $385.00.I don't remember the name of the company that had them but there was 105 of them stored at the old R.C.A.F field there.The company that own them was in St.Johns Quebec.About a year or so later they had a auction for the one's there and was told they went for as low as $100.00.They had new wing's etc.that went dirt cheap.If we only knew what would happen year's down the road 08/21/2013 @ 09:15 [ref: 68024] |
| Antonio Rodriguez Ensenada Baja California, OTH | Hello
My friend Dr Alba,would like to sell and know the price of a wooden prop in good condition, never been used, and it was always hanging on the wall is a prop for a PT 19 and PT in 26 plane. if you know anybody wants to buy it,please contact me,my phone 646 173 6545 in the City of Ensenada, Baja California or my E-mail antonio3109@hotmail.com. My name is Dr Antonio Rodriguez. The owner of this prop, buy it for about 35 years ago in the military pilot school in Guadalajara mexico, he was in the Mexican Air Force. he is retired now 07/14/2011 @ 14:05 [ref: 41110] |
| John Phillips High River, AB | This morning I drove out to our local airport where I keep my Chipmunk and could not believe my eyes, for at the gas pump was a Cornell ! Fantastic, It was the first flying Cornell I had seen in 54 years. They are not common in Western Canada. I had one in the 50's and sold it in 1956 and delivered it to its new buyer in Vancouver.
The one at the gas pump is owned by Don Maclean and he has had it since 1967. Other than the paint it is totally RCAF original. Since I know Don a bit, knew he was the owner, I asked him if he would take me up for a ride. We had about 40 minutes in the air and the grin has not yet left my face. I finally got to fly a Cornell after all those years. There is a pristine Cornell in Wetaskiwin at an aviation museum but although airworthy it will never fly again. They are truly scarce because when turned loose from the airforce, many were kept outside and you can't do that with that wooden wing. So many ended up deteriorating to ruination. Great flying airplane, second only to the Chipmunk. 11/05/2010 @ 19:39 [ref: 33001] |
| John J. Seaton Las Vegas, NM | That PT-26 in Malone was once owned my my brother and me in Marcy, NY. When the airport was shut down in 1954 we sold it to the flight school in Watertown, NY. After a hard landing (left gear went throught the wing it was sold to a farmer in Malone, NY. 09/27/2008 @ 11:40 [ref: 22754] |
| Ron Thompson , VA | The PT-26 was my dads first plane,I was only eight years old at that time(1952). We had a great time with her. It was yellow,but that didn`t last to long. My dad joined the C.A.P. in Torrance Ca.and painted her in Air Force colors.He did fly on a lot of missions with c.a.p. His plane was used for a camera plane for science fiction theater in the 50`s. We had many good flying hours in her. Dad said it was getting too expensive he only paid $750.00 for it and did sell it for 1250.00. Little did we know thirty one years later I bought a new Cessna 172 skyhawk, boy he didn`t know what expensive meant back then!!!! My wife and I both learned how to fly, had many great flying hours of fun in the 172. Dad passed on two years ago. Have many great memories of our flying days!!!!!!!!!!!!! 07/20/2008 @ 11:47 [ref: 22185] |
| phil beaulieu south hero (p.o. box 129), VT | Back in the mid 80's I was looking for a project. Heard about a PT-26 in a barn in Malone N.Y. Flew there and found a disassembled pt-26 with two spare Rangers, spare props and everything else. The tail surfaces were delaminating and I thought that the project was more than I wanted to tackle and anyway they probably wanted too much for it, I DIDNT ASK!!!!, got in the 182 and flew home. Four years ago I was ferrying YAK-52's and mentioned the 26 in the barn. The next day a guy drove there with a trailer and was told that 3 months before the airplane was taken to the local dumpand burned with engines etc. When asked about the guy that looked at it in the 80's the farmer said that he would have given it away free but the guy just left!!!Damn....nice opened PT-26 in hanger 3 at the Pima Air Museum in Tucaon, Az 02/07/2008 @ 16:04 [ref: 19600] |
| phil beaulieu south hero (p.o. box 129), VT | Back in the mid 80's I was looking for a project. Heard about a PT-26 in a barn in Malone N.Y. Flew there and found a disassembled pt-26 with two spare Rangers, spare props and everything else. The tail surfaces were delaminating and I thought that the project was more than I wanted to tackle and anyway they probably wanted too much for it, I DIDNT ASK!!!!, got in the 182 and flew home. Four years ago I was ferrying YAK-52's and mentioned the 26 in the barn. The next day a guy drove there with a trailer and was told that 3 months before the airplane was taken to the local dumpand burned with engines etc. When asked about the guy that looked at it in the 80's the farmer said that he would have given it away free but the guy just left!!!Damn....nice opened PT-26 in hanger 3 at the Pima Air Museum in Tucaon, Az 02/07/2008 @ 16:04 [ref: 19599] |
| phil beaulieu south hero (p.o. box 129), VT | Back in the mid 80's I was looking for a project. Heard about a PT-26 in a barn in Malone N.Y. Flew there and found a disassembled pt-26 with two spare Rangers, spare props and everything else. The tail surfaces were delaminating and I thought that the project was more than I wanted to tackle and anyway they probably wanted too much for it, I DIDNT ASK!!!!, got in the 182 and flew home. Four years ago I was ferrying YAK-52's and mentioned the 26 in the barn. The next day a guy drove there with a trailer and was told that 3 months before the airplane was taken to the local dumpand burned with engines etc. When asked about the guy that looked at it in the 80's the farmer said that he would have given it away free but the guy just left!!!Damn....nice opened PT-26 in hanger 3 at the Pima Air Museum in Tucaon, Az 02/07/2008 @ 16:04 [ref: 19598] |
| sandy sanders , QC | I also bought a Cornell from the Windsor Mills airport.This was in 1949 and I paid $350.00 for CF-FGJ.It had 951 hours total time. A case of beer to (Shorty Lavois )the caretaker and we switched engines from another aircraft that had only 51 hours on the engine. Flew it to Cartier Ville. Had to recover the tailfeathers and change the prop as it was starting to delaminate. Found a perfect one on a restaurant wall with clock in St Jerome. Traded my old one after total refinish with laquer. One year later on sunday afternoon while coming in for landing on runway 9 I received red flare as an F-86 was coming in dead stick. Power on and 150 ft altitude a flock of starlings decide to fill air intake.Engine stopped . side slipped in for a landing on the grass. Too hard and tore the main gear off. End of CF-FGJ.
Sandy 09/23/2007 @ 14:09 [ref: 17993] |
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