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STINSON MODEL U “EXECUTIVE” NC12196
"CITIZEN KANE" SOLD INTO COSTA RICA
This tri-motor transport airplane is a Stinson Model U “Executive” (S/N
9023; ATC #484) manufactured on June 28, 1933 by the Stinson
Aircraft Corporation, Wayne, MI. It left the
factory with three Lycoming R-680 BA engines (S/Ns L 2-838;
R 2-833; C 2-839) of 240 HP each. It was an eight-place
airplane (two pilots), weighing 9,400 pounds gross.
It sold on June 26, 1933 to the Examiner Printing Company,
San Francisco,
CA. It had a special interior installed
for use as transport of San Francisco Examiner and Hearst
newspaper executives. NC12196 landed at Tucson on April 2,
1934. It was piloted by Ray Crawford carrying one passenger
whom he identified as “crew”. The Register
states that the airplane was based in Glendale,
CA at the
time, although the NASM record does not mention any ownership
entity that might have based it there except Hearst's. Regardless,
Crawford and crew were westbound from Ft. Worth, TX to Glendale.
NC12196 as Flown by SF Examiner
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NC12196 transported executives for about five years. It
was transferred to Hearst Publications on January 25, 1937,
and on August 10, 1938 to Aero Brokerage Service Company,
Inglewood, CA. Aero Brokerage sold it on August 16th
to Aerovias Nacionales, San Jose, Costa Rica. Aerovias
paid $5,000 for it and registered it as TI-34 in Costa Rica. No
further information.
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UPLOADED: 04/08/06 REVISED: 08/15/17
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