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Some of this information comes from the listings of Non-Prefixed and Non-Suffixed aircraft reviewed by me in the archives of the National Air & Space Museum (NASM), Washington, DC.

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FLEET HUSKY 1 NC8628

This aircraft was a Fleet Husky 1 with original manufacturer’s serial number 41. The Fleet Aircraft Company, Buffalo, NY built it on April 12, 1929. It left the factory at 1,580 lbs., with a 110 HP Warner Scarab engine S/N 217. It was a two-passenger airplane. It was a popular model and a number of similar airplanes are signed in to our Registers.

It landed once at Glendale, on Tuesday, March 31, 1931 at 6:30PM. Upon its departure, Shelton, the tower operator, noted, "Took off after dark without lights" in the destination column of the Register.

NC8628 flew for about 1,000 hours in the continental U.S. over the first five years of its life, then was sold on January 19, 1934 to a new owner in Hawaii. On August 6, 1934, with 1320:30 flight hours, NC8628 suffered an accident in Honolulu. The, “airplane failed to come out of a spin and was demolished – complete washout....". Pilot and passenger survived.

NC8628 is also signed once in the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register at Tucson, AZ, November 15, 1929 piloted solo by B.W. Frierton. Based in Little Rock, AR he was northwestbound from El Paso, TX to Phoenix, AZ. More details are at the Davis-Monthan Web site link.

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