Registration Number 7575
“Disassembled And Junked”
This aircraft is a Stinson SM-1B Detroiter, manufacturer’s
serial number 273 (ATC #GR2-24). It was manufactured 8/19/1928
by Stinson Aircraft Corporation, Northville, MI. It left the
factory with a 220 HP Wright Whirlwind engine, S/N B 9085
or 9083 (not clear from the record). It weighed 3,485 pounds
as a six-place aircraft. It was sold on 8/30/28 to Port Angeles
Air Transport, Inc. of Port Angeles, WA for $12,500. It was
to be operated, “Seattle – Port Angeles –
Victoria, B.C.” on a twice-daily, 50 minute schedule.
Our airplane comes once to Tucson on 9/7/1928 piloted by
Ed Merritt with W.A. Brubaker as passenger. With their homebase
identified as Northville, MI, this was obviously the first
cross-country flight of this brand new airplane from the factory
to the new owners.
It suffered an accident in Portand, OR on 2/7/29. There was
damage to the landing gear and propeller when a tire went
flat and an, “aerol strut collapsed when landing.”
Pilot J.P. Livermore (transport license #2307) and passengers
Al French and “Jump” Goodwin (wonder what his
occupation was) were uninjured.
It sold three more times over the next decade, moving south
on 7/23/38 to Marysville, CA owner William A. Brander. It
had accumulated 1806:15 flight hours as of 9/14/38. Mr. Brander
died in November 1939 and the airplane became the property
of his widow, Mabel E. Brander as of 5/4/40. CAA inspector
Hughes wrote in a memo of 4/1940 that, “Stinson 7575
is completely disassembled and junked.”
UPLOADED: 07/26/05 REVISED:
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