This airplane is a Fokker C-2. According to Joe Baugher's site, 26-202 through 204 were Fokker-Atlantic ships, meaning they were manufactured in the United States under license from Fokker. As an interesting aside, a sister ship, 26-202, made the first trans-Pacific flight from Oakland, CA to Honolulu, T.H. flown by Register pilots Lester Maitland and Albert Hegenberger.
Below, a photograph of 26-204 at Teterboro, NJ, date unknown. The photo is from the Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB) link, a useful resource for thousands of vintage photographs of aircraft. Note the herring bone pattern just above the port wheel. The pattern shows the installation of numerous rubber shock-absorber bungees.These bungees are normally covered by a faring, suggesting this is a photograph of the airplane when it was new, with finishing touches, like fairings, still to be completed. The number "26-204" can be read just forward and below the horizontal stabilizer. Note also the exhaust pipes and flared horns of the outboard engines that arch over the wings.
Fokker C-2 26-204, Teterboro, NJ, Date Unknown (Source: EAFB via Bybee)
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Sunday Oregonian, Portland, OR, May 27, 1928 (Source: Woodling)
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26-204 landed at Tucson twice, on Friday, May 25, 1928 at 12:15PM, and on Monday, September 17, 1928 12:30PM. The first landing was made by Peter E. Skanse. He carried seven passengers, each of whom he listed in the Register. They were Ray Collins, Carl H. Keller, Frank Bogart, Hugh White, John C. Carden, Ray Cooper and James Piersol. They were based at Washington, DC, arrived at Tucson from El Paso, TX and departed for Phoenix, AZ at 1:20PM. Piersol, a pilot in his own right who landed once at Tucson as pilot in command,
was the aviation editor for the Detroit News. The reason for the airplane's flight through Tucson is described in the article at left. Please direct your browser to Skanse's link to learn more about its trip and the people who flew with it.
The second landing was flown by Lt. Harry A. Dinger. He carried four passengers listed as the Honorable W. Frank James, Member of Congress, Major T.W. Hammond, Staff Sgt. Paul Ritter and a Private L'Esperance. Based at Washington, DC, they arrived eastbound from San Diego, CA. They remained overnight, departing the next morning at 6:00AM for Washington.
This article reported in the Bureau of Aerounautics Newsletter states, "Congressman W. Frank James of Michigan, Acting Chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, who arrived at Rockwell Field Thursday afternoon in a three-engined Fokker monoplane on an air tour of the military posts, visited the Station Friday afternoon 26 August. He was accompanied by Major H.B. Claggett, Air Officer of the Ninth Corps Area, and Major Houghton, Commanding Officer of Rockwell Field."
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