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Aircraft

The Company

First Flight	Model	Military Number	Name
1932	24	UC-61	Forwarder
1939	62	PT-19*	Cornell
1944	78	C-82	Packet
1947	105*	C-119	Flying Boxcar
1949	205	C-123	Provider
1955	F-27		Friendship
1972		A-10	Thunderbolt II
1981			Metro III
1998	328JET

* original model/designation

Engines

Fairchild-Caminez

First Flight	Model	Military Number	Name
1926	447

Sherman Mills Fairchild got his start in the aviation industry by designing his own aerial cameras. In 1925, Huff-Daland failed to honor a contract with Sherman Fairchild acting as an independent aircraft salesman prompting the creation of Fairchild Aircraft Manufacturing Corp. in 1926. The U.S. Army's first dedicated photo-reconnaissance aircraft, the F-1 of 1929, was a Fairchild product.

1925: Fairchild hires Harold Caminez and forms Fairchild-Caminez to develop the Caminez 447 engine.

1926: Sherman Fairchild forms Fairchild Aviation Corp.

1929: Fairchild takes over Kreider-Reisner which operates as an separate unit until 1936. Fairchild-Caminez becomes the Fairchild Engine Corporation.

1936: Fairchild forms the Ranger Engine Division.

1964: Fairchild acquires Hiller Helicopters forming Fairchild Hiller.

1965: Fairchild acquires Republic Aviation forming the Republic Division of Fairchild Hiller.

1966: The parent company changes its name to Fairchild Industries.

1972: Fairchild acquires 90% of Swearingen Aviation, the maker of Metro airliners.

1987: Production costs and schedule problems with Fairchild's last aircraft, the T-46, leads to the announcement that Fairchild Industries is leaving the aircraft business.

1989: Fairchild Industries is acquired by Banner Industries which changes its name to The Fairchild Corporation. The Fairchild Corporation currently focuses on industrial products.

1991: The Fairchild Corp sells it's Metro plant in San Antonio, Texas. The new owners take the name Fairchild Aircraft (later Fairchild Aerospace).

1996: Fairchild Aerospace acquires Dornier to form Fairchild Dornier.

2002: Fairchild Dornier files bankruptcy. The court appointed administrator determines that the company will have to be sold in pieces.

2003: Fairchild Dornier's assets go to AvCraft (Virginia, USA), M7 Aerospace (Texas, USA) and RUAG Aerospace (Switzerland)

Related Websites

	Go to the M7 Aerospace website
	Go to the AvCraft website
	Go to the RUAG website
	Go to the Fairchild Club website