A Complete Waste of Space

It's real, it was produced in limited quantities for the USAF. It is currently the only one registered and flying in the world.


It was configured to do duty as an air ambulance if need be.








When my buddy that owns it, gets the rear mag straightened out, I'll get to fly it.

Stinson Reliant?

HH

Piper AH-1?? Just a freaking guess, but it looks as if you'll have a blast flying it.

Piper L-4 Grasshopper?

It does resemble a Stinson...though, no gull tapered wing...so, it ain't a Relilant.....plus, it's to small....

If it is a Stinson, SR7 or SR8? It really does at first blush, look like one of their products..with the engine and fuselage....

Good for you if ya get the chance to fly it Wullie...though, if yer "splitting" the gas? Start saving yer lunch money....last year.

More pic's please...nice job on the restoration.....

It is a Stinson product.

Keep guessing. It is NOT a Reliant.

It was a "Liaison" aircraft hence it had an "L" designation.

The guy that owns it doesn't need anyone to split gas. He's an old friend and has a hangar full of neat shit. INCLUDING the RYAN STA replica that was used one of the Ralph Lauren advertisements a while back.



A Pitts S-1,


An Aeronca Champ


A "short nosed Fairchild R-24 with a 6 cyl Ranger 290HP engine.


And a hangar cat that weighs 22lbs..

that was a tough one, i was thinking bellanca, but a bit more digging reveals it to be a stinson L5 sentinel/105 voyager

All the L-5's I have found are powered by opposed engines.
The fuselage, wings, struts and gear look like
a L-5.

Looks like you might have it Dike_O_Chew, but I have yet to find another photo
of an L-5 with a Jacobs or Continental radial engine.

By the way, my first airplane ride was in a Stinson L-5 out
of Plum Island airport over half a century ago.

HH

Stinson L-5E got a Continental radial up front. Used as glider tug at the Air Force Academy in the 50's and 60's. Total production was 17. As the motor mounts weren't fucked with, most got converted back the normal configuration.

Should'a known you wuz a thowin a curve ball....

I did think it was kind'a fancy fer a banner tower....

What really fooled me? The shallow drip pan underneath....that radial....
Most folks I've known...had to use a bucket...

Mighty neat and special that there airplane...