Brian Reberry built the Model 3M1C1R “September Fate”, race #13, in 2011.
Serial Number 013 and registered N013, “September Fate” has been clocked at 238.824 mph.
In 2015 the 3M1C1R was registered to Hot Stuff Air Racing LLC of Kissimmee, Florida, United States.
Engine: Continental O-200-D
Rearwin Aircraft and Engines introduced the Skyranger in 1940 as a side-by-side two-seat cabin monoplane. Designed by Gene Salvay and George A. Stark, the Skyanger was first flown on 9 April 1940, given Aircraft Type Certificate #729 in 1940.
This aircraft was first produced in four versions: the 175 with a 75-hp Continental, the 180 with an 80-hp Continental, the 180F with a 80-hp Franklin, and the 190F powered by a 90-hp Franklin engine. Seating two people side-by-side, it featured a fabric-covered steel tube fuselage and wooden wing and it sold for about $3000. It had a conventional landing gear with a tailwheel.
About 85 were built by 1941. The Skyranger was the last design of Rearwin Aircraft. Production stopped in 1942 because of the war effort.
In 1942 the Rearwin Airplane Company was purchased by Commonwealth Aircraft of Kansas City, Missouri. In 1943 the company was reorganized as the Commonwealth Aircraft Corp. The Commonwealth Skyranger 185, with its Continental C-85-12 engine, new from the factory on Long Island was about $3,000 in early 1946.
In 1946 Commonwealth re-established the construction of the Skyranger at their Valley Stream plant for just one year. By November of 1946, production of the Skyranger stopped due to market pressures. It had many minor modifications but was essentially the same aircraft. The Skyranger 185 is fabric covered. The fuselage is welded steel tubing, and the wing has wood spars and ribs. A full electrical system was standard, and the aircraft has a large baggage compartment, and wing slots which give better aileron control at low speeds. Two 12.5-gal. wing tanks were standard, 18-gal. tanks were an option. As the anticipated post-war boom in civil aviation had not then started, Commonwealth went bankrupt in 1947, after 275 Skyrangers were built by Commonwealth.
Serial numbers in the 1500s were built by Rearwin. Serial numbers in the 1600s are Commonwealth 185 Skyrangers.
Skyranger 165
Engine: Continental, 65 hp
Wing Span: 34 ft
Length: 21 ft, 9 in
Height: 6 ft, 7 in
Wheel Tread: 74 in
Wing Area: 164.6 sq ft
Wing Loading: 8.2 lbs/sq ft
Power Loading: 20.77 lbs/hp
Empty Weight: 760 lbs
Useful Load: 590 lbs
Gross Weight: 1350 lbs
Baggage and Extra Equipment: 100 lbs
Fuel Capacity: 24 USgal
Fuel Consumption: 4 USgal/hr
Maximum Speed: 105 mph
Cruising Speed: 95 mph
Landing Speed: 38 mph
Cruising Range: 500 miles
Service Ceiling: 12,000 ft
Rate of Climb: 550 ft/min
Skyranger 175
Engine: Continental, 75 hp
Wing Span: 34 ft
Length: 21 ft, 9 in
Height: 6 ft, 7 in
Wheel Tread: 74 in
Wing Area: 164.6 sq ft
Wing Loading: 8.2 lbs/sq ft
Power Loading: 18 lbs/hp
Empty Weight: 760 lbs
Useful Load: 590 lbs
Gross Weight: 1350 lbs
Baggage and Extra Equipment: 100lbs
Fuel Capacity: 24 USgal
Fuel Consumption: 4.6 USgal/hr
Maximum Speed: 110 mph
Cruising Speed: 100 mph
Landing Speed: 38 mph
Cruising Range: 500 miles
Service Ceiling: 14,000 ft
Rate of Climb: 625 ft/min
Type Certificate: 729
Skyranger 180
Engine: Continental, 80 hp
Empty weight: 910 lb
MAUW: 1450 lb
Fuel capacity: 48 USG
Top speed: 114 mph
Cruise speed: 103 mph
Stall: 40 mph
Initial ROC: 650 fpm
Range: 500 miles
Ceiling: 14,000 ft
Seats: 2
Type Certificate: amendment to 729
Skyranger 180F
Engine: Franklin 4AC-176-F3
Type Certificate: amendment to 729
Skyranger 185
Engine: Continental C-185-12, 85 hp (63 kW)
Wing Span: 34 ft
Length: 21 ft, 9 in
Height: 6 ft, 7 in
Wheel Tread: 74 in
Wing Area: 164.6 sq ft
Wing Loading: 8.81 lbs/sq ft
Power Loading: 17.06 lbs/hp
Gross weight: 1,350 lb / 612 kg
Fuel Capacity: 30 USgal
Fuel Consumption: 5 USgal/hr
Endurance: 5 hours
Maximum Speed: 114 mph
Cruising Speed: 103 mph
Landing Speed: 38 mph
Cruising Range: 600 miles
Service Ceiling: 14,000 feet
Rate of Climb: 650 ft/min
Crew: 1
Capacity: 2
Skyranger 190F
Engine: Franklin 4AC-199-E3, 90 hp
Type Certificate: amendment to 729
Built in the US in the 1930s. A two seat, light touring cabin monoplane, powered by a 90hp Ken Royce 5F or Le Blond 5F radial. Capable of 120mph at 1,000ft.
More than 325 were built.
Wing span: 35ft 0in
Length: 22ft 3in
Height: 6ft 9in
American Cirrus engine
A two-seat light monoplane in 1931
The Reality Easy Raider is a development of the Flying K (later Sky Raider LLC) Sky Raider II, incorporating over 100 modifications.
Featuring a high wing with two tubular main, and two secondary bracing struts to each wing. Tailplane braced with twin wires above and twin rods below. Large fin fillet, compared with Sky Raider, enables sideslipping with cockpit doors in place. Wings fold for storage. Quoted build time 350 hours.
Flying controls are conventional and manual. Frise ailerons, cable actuated. Flight-adjustable tab in port tailplane. Horn-balanced tail surfaces. Slotted flaps, deflections 0, 15, 30 and 40°.
Fabric-covered 4130 chromoloy steel tube fuselage with composites engine cowling. Wing built on large diameter metal tube leading-edge/spar with wooden ribs, fabric covering and composites downturned wingtips.
The landing gear is tailwheel type; fixed. Rubber-in-tension shock-absorbers. Mainwheels 8.00-6 (4 ply); Matco steerable tailwheel. Optional floats or amphibious floats.
Two fuel tanks are fitted in the wings, total capacity 37.9 litres (10.0 US gallons; 8.3 Imp gallons) standard; 72 litres (19.0 US gallons; 15.8 Imp gallons) optional.
A tandem-seat ultralight kitbuilt, the prototype G-SRII (Rotax 503 engine) flew in 2001, and conforms to BCAR Section S. Kit fabrication is by Just Aircraft of USA, with which Reality holds joint design rights.
The Easy Raider 503 initial version has one 37.0 kW (49.6 hp) Rotax 503 DCDI-2V two-stroke engine driving a Powerfin FL370T three-blade, ground-adjustable pitch, composites propeller.
The Easy Raider J2.2 has one 59.7 kW (80 hp) Jabiru 2200 engine driving a two-blade Powerfin ground-adjustable pitch or two-blade Newton wooden propeller. The prototype G-OESY (c/n 0002) was built late in 2001.
The Easy Raider R100 with a BMW R100 four-stroke motorcycle engine driving a Powerfin two-blade, ground-adjustable pitch propeller, prototype G-SLIP (c/n 0004) was under construction in 2002.
Five were flying and five more under construction by July 2003.
Kit £9,898 excluding engine; or £12,563 (Rotax), £14,500 approx (BMW) or £16,298 (Jabiru), including engine, cowlings and propeller, excluding tax (2003).
The XLR-99 powering the X-15 produced 60,000 lb of thrust and Scott Crossfield flew the new engine on contractor flights in November and December 2960, but the engine was not ready for government flights until March 1961.
The engine powering the X-15-1 was the XLR-11, built by Reaction Motors. The XLR-11 was comprised of two rocket motors, an upper and a lower. Each motor had four chambers and each chamber gave 1500 lb thrust; a total of 12,000 lb thrust.
Designed by Robert Barrows of Fincastle, Virginia, the Bearhawk is a 4-place built design with generous proportions and superior performance. The design parameter were for a heavy hauling BIG airplane with a good cruise speed and economical operation. Short field performance is excellent with the large flaps. The Bearhawk is a 4 place and the prototype Bearhawk N6890R is powered by a Lycoming O-360 (170 hp) set up to burn auto fuel.
The Bearhawk has an all metal wing with a fabric covered steel tube fuselage and tail feathers. A Cessna windshield, modified lift struts, and the fiberglass nose bowl are some airframe components that need not be built by the homebuilder. The builder time is estimated at 1500-2000 hrs.
Engine: Lycoming O-360, 170 hp
HP range: 150-260
Wing Span: 33 ft.
Wing Area: 180 ft.
Length: 23 ft. 6 in.
Height: 7 ft
Empty Weight: 1190 lbs.
Gross Weight: 2500 lbs.
Fuel cap: 55 USG
Top Speed (VNE): 175 mph
Cruise Speed: 120-150 mph
Landing Speed: 40 mph
Take Off Roll: 250-600 ft.
Range (55 gal @ 60%): 800 miles
Stall: 40 mph
ROC: 1500 fpm
Range: 800 sm
Service ceiling: 15,000 ft
Cabin Width: 42 in.
Cabin Length (Firewall to the end of baggage area): 9 ft. 8 in
Cockpit width: 30 in
Landing gear: tail wheel
Seats: 4
Raytheon Aircraft won a USAF and USN Joint Primary Aircraft Training System competition with the Beech Mk.II trainer, derived from the Pilatus PC-9.
Raytheon’s contract with the U.S. joint armed services to provide up to 700 T-6ATexan II JPATS trainers through the year 2014 continued to pay dividends for the Wichita based airframer. The Air Force and Navy exercised an option for 22 additional Texan IIs, an order valued at almost $65 million.
The first production T-6A Texan II flew on 15 July 1998.
Apart from the JPATS program, Raytheon has orders for 138 T 6As, including a 45 airplane deal with the Greek Air Force.
The first production Beechcraft AT-6 light attack aircraft made a ceremonial first flight on 20 August 2013 at Wichita, Kansas. The single-engined 1,600shp (1,190kW) Pratt & Whitney PT6 turboprop aeroplane took to the air at about 10:30 local time with test pilot Lionel Alford at the controls.
The aircraft was loaded with a pair of 66 gal (250 litres) drop tanks, two inert GBU-58 laser-guided bombs and two LAU-131 seven-shot rocket launchers. The AT-6 was also carrying a L-3 Wescam Mx-15Di electro-optical infrared camera. Although a production aircraft, it is a company-owned asset. Beechcraft has not secured an order for the type. When asked why the company would fly the first flight with such a heavy load, Derek Hess, the company’s senior vice-president for business development, says: “Because it’s so easy.”
The aircraft had demonstrated air-to-air gunnery with .50 caliber machine guns and the potential exists to employ Raytheon AIM-9 Sidewinders to counter certain aerial threats.
The AT-6TH Wolverine attack variant is derived from the T-6C Texan trainer and is designed to carry out close air support and surveillance missions. The AT-6 has an L3 Wescam MX-15D multi-sensor package that includes colour and IR cameras, laser designator, laser illuminator, and laser rangefinder.
The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) received eight AT-6TH Wolverine light attack aircraft in 2025 acquired from the United States as part of its ongoing fleet modernization program.
Assigned to Squadron 411, part of Wing 41 based in Chiang Mai, the AT-6TH Wolverine, manufactured by U.S. company Textron Aviation, is designed for close air support, armed surveillance, and tactical training missions.
T-6A Texan II
Engine: Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68, 1100 hp
Length: 33.268 ft / 10.14 m
Height: 10.696 ft / 3.26 m
Wingspan: 33.301 ft / 10.15 m
Wing area: 175.346 sq.ft / 16.29 sq.m
Max take off weight: 6299.7 lb / 2857.0 kg
Weight empty: 4601.8 lb / 2087.0 kg
Max. speed: 310 kt / 575 km/h
Cruising speed: 230 kt / 426 km/h
Initial climb rate: 3996.06 ft/min / 20.30 m/s
Service ceiling: 35007 ft / 10670 m
Wing loading: 35.88 lb/sq.ft / 175.0 kg/sq.m
Range: 850 nm / 1574 km
Endurance: 3 h
Crew: 2
