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2012
Swift National Fly-In
Hosted by
Gateway Swift Wings
Creve Coeur Airport
(1H0)
Maryland Heights, Missouri |
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2012
Swift National
Convention & Fly-In
June
20th - 23rd, 2012 |
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HOTEL
REGISTRATION:
Deadline for booking
your hotel room is May 23, 2012.
After that date, normal rate of $124.00 + applies.
Room rates
are available 3 days pre - and post - convention days.
Contracted group rates per room per night is $99.00.
Individual registration can be made by calling DoubleTree
Hotel by Hilton Reservations Office at
1-866-786-8088 or easy online registration link below.
Rooms will be held until the cut-off date.
Easy
Online Hotel Reservations
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Photos
by Serial Number
Please check "Photos by Serial Number"
section and if
you have pictures of missing serial numbers or
your plane is not pictured please send in those
pictures.
I would like to have at least one picture of each
Swift built.
These don’t have to be air to air or glamour
shots. If you have
an actual photo and can’t scan the photo mail
it to me and if
you would like the photo returned just let me know
and I will mail it back.
Brad Madden
1027 Parkland Place
Glen Allen, VA 23059
Brad@SaginawWings.com
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Identify
This Swift
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the story as I recall it. It was either 56' or more
likely 57' when I was asked by a guy who had just
bought the airplane for a "check out". Truthfully,
I had never flown a Swift before, but what the heck?
I am a certified instructor, aren't I? As I recall
it was two brothers who had bought the airplane and
I was to fly with one of them. The wind was out of
the north (not a good sign) at the old el Monte airport.
The engine was an 85 hp with a controllable propeller
via a hand crank on the instrument panel. We took
off and I was immediately impressed by the lack of
power; like 85 hp should get anything out of el Monte
better than this did. We made one pass around the
airport and landed. I told the guy that the engine
was not developing full power and that I would suggest
taking it into the shop there at el Monte and having
it checked out before making anymore flights, and
that I wouldn't fly in it again until it was repaired.
I never made a log book entry due to the brief flight,
so I can't say what the date was. So later on in the
day I saw the feeble Swift taking off again to the
north. I ran over from my vantage point and saw the
Swift hit the old wooden bridge that covered lower
Azusa road over the the rio Hondo river."
It is hard to read the tail number because of debris.
It is listed as a picture in google as N80808, which
I know is incorrect.
Do you have any information about this Swift? |
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The
Following Airplane is Unknown
If you can identify this airplane please email me
Brad@SaginawWings.com |
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Joe
Lemanski replied, I saw a Swift with flat plate tips
at the now long deceased McKinley airport in the NE
suburbs of Detroit about 1976.
Could this be it? |
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