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Description
| Notes: High wing, twin engine, fixed landing gear tactical troop transport with aft ramp. Modified for armed reconnaissance. | ||
| Manufacturer: | Skytrader | |
| Base model: | V-23 | |
| Designation: | UV-23 | |
| Version: | A | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1956-Present | |
| Basic role: | V/STOL | |
| Modified Mission: | Utility | |
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Recent comments by our visitors
| Glenn Ham Glennham1@yahoo.com , MO | I went to work for Skytrader in 1988 for about a year, then again for a few months when they were called Advanced Lift Research. At Skytrader, located at what was then the Richards Gabaur base in Kansas City, I was responsible for installing the complete electrical system for the Turbo Meca engines that were being used at the time, as well as the avionics systems. It was an exciting time watching the flight tests after everything was completed. This was an interesting venture that had a promising future, but it was dissapointing to see it come to an end. The UV23A was the only version that was real and actually flew. None of the other larger versions were ever more than a mock up, which I also helped build.
The pictures shown on this site had to have been taken right after the end of Skytrader, because the last anyone saw of the aircraft the wings had been chopped off and it was loaded onto a truck and hauled away. These pictures appear to be after the Turbo Meca engines were removed, and before the wings were removed. The hangar in the background looks like the one at Richards Gabaur where they were based. 10/18/2005 @ 16:41 |
| Glenn Ham Glennham1@yahoo.com , MO | I went to work for Skytrader in 1988 for about a year, then again for a few months when they were called Advanced Lift Research. At Skytrader, located at what was then the Richards Gabaur base in Kansas City, I was responsible for installing the complete electrical system for the Turbo Meca engines that were being used at the time, as well as the avionics systems. It was an exciting time watching the flight tests after everything was completed. This was an interesting venture that had a promising future, but it was dissapointing to see it come to an end. The UV23A was the only version that was real and actually flew. None of the other larger versions were ever more than a mock up, which I also helped build.
The pictures shown on this site had to have been taken right after the end of Skytrader, because the last anyone saw of the aircraft the wings had been chopped off and it was loaded onto a truck and hauled away. These pictures appear to be after the Turbo Meca engines were removed, and before the wings were removed. The hangar in the background looks like the one at Richards Gabaur where they were based. 10/18/2005 @ 16:41 |
