NASM Archives Technical Drawings: Waco Aircraft Company Drawings

The Fairchild (Kreider-Reisner) Model 24 was a single-engined, two-, three-, or four-place, high-wing cabin monoplane with conventional landing gear designed for the private aviation market. The aircraft, initially designed by the Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Co, Inc (later a division of Fairchild Aviation Corporation) of Hagerstown, MD, was first introduced at the Detroit Air Show in 1932 and received its Civil Aeronautics Authority Approved Type Certificate in April. Over the next fifteen years the Model 24 went through seventeen different models of increasing power and payload with both radial and in-line engine versions. Always a popular aircraft, production of the Model 24 was only suspended in 1942, when the Federal government closed down all civil aircraft production because of the war. The Texas Engineering and Manufacturing Company (Temco) of Dallas, TX resumed Model 24 manufacture in 1946, after Fairchild failed to do so, but finally stopped all production for good due to the postwar aviation market slump in 1948.

The collection consists of two sections: 1) Copies of Fairchild's original drawing lists for the various models in the Fairchild 24 series. 2) Approximately 4,200 individual original pencil and paper component engineering drawings for the Fairchild 24 series. This section also contains sepia copies of some originals, and multiple revisions for some drawings. The collection DOES NOT include ALL the drawings for any one model in the Fairchild 24 series.

Please use this form (PDF format 237k, requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader), to order copies of Fairchild's original drawing lists for the various models in the Fairchild 24 series.

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