REPUBLIC RC-3 SEABEE # 141

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AIRCRAFT DATA
Manufacturer: Republic Aviation Corporation; Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, USA.
Model: RC-3 Seabee
Type Certificate No: A-769
Serial Number: 141
Manufacturing Date: 1946-11-??
Engine: Franklin 6A8-215-B8F (215 HP at 2500 RPM)
S/N: 23158
Remarks: Mode S codes: 53006123 / AC0C53 (N87574)
 
Reg. No. Date Remarks
NC87574 1946-11-?? Manufacturing Date.
1946-11-07 Weight and Balance data: Weight Empty - Actual: 2180.0 lbs.
1946-11-12 Statement of Conformity, CAA Form ACA 317, issued by Republic Aviation Corporation ... 141 has been manufactured in conformity with the data forming the basis for Type Certificate No. 769 Tentative...
[Signed M. E. Barzelat, Design Engineer].
1946-11-?? Test flight.
1946-11-13 Aircraft Airworthiness Certificate No: 87574, CAA Form ACA 308-A issued.
1946-11-13 Bill of Sale, CAA Form ACA-502:
Purchaser: North American Airport Corporation; Westchester County Airport, White Plains, New York.
Seller: Republic Aviation Corporation; Farmingdale, New York.
1946-11-13 Officially delivered from Republic Aviation Corporation to North American Airport Corporation; White Plains, New York, USA.
1946-11-13 Bill of Sale, CAA Form ACA-502:
Purchaser: C-B Warfield Co.; 72 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, New York.
Seller: North American Airport Corporation; Westchester County Airport, White Plains, New York.
1946-11-13 Application For Registration For All Types Of Aircraft, CAA Form ACA 501:
Applicant: C-B Warfield Co.; 72 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, New York.
1946-11-13 Aircraft Registration Certificate No. 87574, CAA Form ACA 500-A, issued to:
C-B Warfield Company; 72 Fifth Avenue, New York 11, New York.
1947-04-23 Bill of Sale, CAA Form ACA-500 Part C:
Purchaser: Bradley Air Transport, Inc.; 361 95th Street, Brooklyn 31, New York.
Seller: C-B Warfield Co.; Thomas O. Warfield, owner.
1947-04-28 Registration Certificate, CAA Form ACA-500 Part A, issued to:
Bradley Air Transport, Inc.; 361 95th Street, Brooklyn 31, New York.
1949-06-22 Bill of Sale, CAA Form ACA 500 Part C:
Purchaser: Hans Schillinger; 112 East 36th Street, New York 16, New York.
Seller: Bradley Air Transport, Inc.
1949-08-23 Application For Registration, CAA Form ACA-500 Part B:
Applicant: Hans Schillinger; 112 East 36th Street, New York 16, New York.
1949-08-26 Certificate of Registration, CAA Form ACA-500 Part A, issued to:
Hans Schillinger; 112 East 36th Street, New York  16, New York.
1950-08-28 East River, New York City, New York: aircraft crashed on landing when one wing float hit a submerged obstacle and was torn off. The plane nosed over.

PLANE CARRYING 4 CRACKS UP IN RIVER

2 Men and 2 Women Ending Week-End Party Rescued From Waters Off E. 23d St.

     A week-end party of two men and two girls, returning from Watermill, L. I., ended in a violent ducking into the East River yesterday morning.
     The seaplane that the four had used to visit the ocean beach resort crashed and sank as it was coming into the New York Skyport at East Twenty-third Street at 9 A. M.
     The four, who suffered only minor injuries. were rescued by harbor craft. They were: Hans Schillinger, 31 years old, of 112 East Thirty-sixth Street; Julio Limantour, 39, of 45 East Sixty-eight Street; Miss Irma Hanson, 21, of 578 Fifty-seventh Street, Brooklyn, and Miss Laura Barone, 25, of 51 West Seventy-first Steet.
     Mr. Schillinger is the owner and licensed pilot of the plane, a Republic Seabee, four-seat, single-engine craft. Mr. Limantour is an exporter. Both girls are professional models.
     Mr. Schillinger said one pontoon of  his plane struck a submerged obstacle and was torn off. The plane nosed over, but did not sink for some time. The four occupants clung to the craft and to life preservers until pulled from the water by the crew of a speedboat from the Skyport and by a fishing boat. All were able to go home after treatment for cuts and bruises, except for Miss Hanson, who remained at Bellevue Hospital to have stitches taken in a leg.
     A Sanitation Department tug was towing the wrecked plane to shore, when it sank in twenty feet of water off East Twenty-fifth Street.

[New York Times; Aug 29, 1950]
1950-10-09 Aircraft Status Change, CAA Form ACA 195:
Registered owner: Tom's Point Skyport, Inc.
Canceled for reason checked below:
[x] 4. Accident. Washout 8-28-50 per list 10-4-50 in master file.

Cancelled from CAA Aircraft Register.
  Sources: RAC Seabee Delivery List.
FAA Aircraft Registry.
Barry Collman.
Matt Miller.

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