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Description
| Manufacturer: | Fairchild | |
| Base model: | PT-23 | |
| Designation: | PT-23 | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1925-1947 | |
| Basic role: | Primary Trainer | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Castle Air Museum | Atwater | California |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Tony Anger Gilbert, AZ | My first lessons were in my dad's PT-23. He and a friend bought it in MN and flew it until he and crashed in it in 1971. It was N1113 and my dad always hated the n number because of the 13 in it. I never thought much about it until we crashed. It was a very good basic aerobatic plane and my dad actually won the sprotsman championship in the IAC competition held at Chesepeake Bay airport close to Annapolis, MD.
It was flown regually at the Flying Circus Aerodrome the first year. We were taking off from the Flying Circus on a Saturday, we had stopped to see Charlie Kulp, the famous Flying Farmer. We surmised that the fabric on the tips of the prop came lose and redered the prop about 80% inefeciant. We crashed trying to get back to the field landing in the parking lot. We got out with scrapes and bruises but the primer line broke spilling fuel on the hot engine and it was a total loss in a matter of minutes. It was a fun plane and sorely missed. 12/02/2007 @ 17:45 [ref: 18766] |
| Kent Rodebaugh , CO | As a CAP cadet and aviation nut at the age of 17 I bought a PT23 in Eugene, Oregon for $550.00. It had been slightly modified with the addition of a cowling on the engine. It flew beautifully for the year I owned it. Then reality set in. I realized all the money I had saved for college was tied up in my beautiful plane! Regretfully, I sold it, losinf $60.00 on the deal, but have wondered all these years what became of it.
I have a photo of it somewhere, but apparently don't remember the registration number correctly. I tried looking it up in a registry, but was told that registration number belonged to a DC3. 11/06/2007 @ 11:49 [ref: 18426] |
| Fred Horky , GA | I was only a high school kid at the end of WWII, but the PT-23 greatly affected my career path. In 1944 my older brother Mel had enlisted in the Navy "...so he wouldn't miss the war" (he didn't!) and was only twenty years old at discharge a year AFTER the war. Greatly enamored with aviation (as all youth was then, you had to be there to understand) he and his high school chum Bill, also freshly out of the military, bought a war-surplus PT-23 for $450.
There are too many adventures to recount here, but his share of the PT-23 was sacrificed to practicality when he became serious with the girl who was to become my sister-in-law. But that airplane was the catalyst for both our careers; for Mel his long career with McDonnell Aviation; for myself an aero engineering degree followed by USAF pilot training and a military aviation career. Sadly, I don't have a single picture of that airplane, but did do the amateurish painting from memory that has hung in my den for years, showing the two partners flying their "PT" with its garish nose art and "Bar Fly II" name. (There never was a "Bar Fly one" but they thought it sounded better.) 10/25/2007 @ 03:17 [ref: 18299] |
| Jacob Carmer montrose, MI | I am actually looking for some help. my grandfather has told me many stories about a pt 23 he owned after highschool but had to sell before finishing his pilot training. The whole familty thing we all know about. If anybody knows about how I could track this aircraft down to find out what happened to it I would greatly appreciate it. all I know is it had the full canopy conversion and the serial # is 4633AE. it was also N40007. but I looked up the n number on faa and saw that is now registered to a cessena. Just wondering if it was flying, in a musem, barn or destroyed. thanks for any help. e-mail is jdcarmer@yahoo.com 09/01/2007 @ 20:34 [ref: 17814] |
| Harry Webb Ridgecrest, CA | After discharged from the 7th Air Force in 1946. In the fall of l946 the VA sent me brochures on Surplus Airplanes available to veterins. I took advantage of the opportunity and purchased a Fairchild PT-23 at Cape Gerardo, Missouri for $750.00.
I drove from the west coast as soon as I received my brochure so I had my pick. There must have been about 500 planes available. I lived right on the beach in Westport, Washington. I took good care of the plywood wings and even in the coastal dampness I still never had any trouble. It was a forgiving, beautiful airplane. 06/26/2007 @ 10:26 [ref: 16946] |
| Dick , FL | I flew the PT-23 in Primary traing in 1943 in Army Air Corp civilian traning detachment in Clarksville, Miss. Went on to fly the B-17 in combat. 03/18/2007 @ 08:50 [ref: 15933] |
| gene zeigler warren, OH | some where in my collection of old aviation magazines there is a photo of a pt-23 with a fully cowled engine and wheel pants. thearticle says that the cowling though not approved was taken from a cessna bamboo bomber [ cessna t-50] this was done aparently sometime in the late 40's or early 50's don't remember if there was a date or not. following WWII there were several pt=23's based at long gone warren airways. one was later in the 50's at what is now skeets airportnear warren and was dimantled after the center section was found to be rotted. the center section was made of wood and seemed to be a rroblem wit pt-91,23 and 26. 02/28/2007 @ 06:19 [ref: 15707] |
| Steve Hubbard Anchorage, AK | I remember as a young boy flying his PT-23 in Evart, Michigan. These memories are some of the most precious of my childhood days. Anyone with information regarding this Plane please contact me. I understand that the Plane is now in a Museum in Ohio. Response is appreciated. 10/31/2005 @ 19:24 [ref: 11619] |
| Carl , CT | I have some photos of my dad`s PT-23 and will send them to who ever wants some. 07/09/2002 @ 18:39 [ref: 5279] |
| Jeff Glick smoketown, PA | I am in search of a PT-23 aircraft model. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks 04/06/2002 @ 14:37 [ref: 4672] |
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