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Description
| Manufacturer: | North American |
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| Base model: | O-47 | ||
| Designation: | O-47 | ||
| Version: | B | ||
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | ||
| Designation Period: | 1924-1942 | ||
| Basic role: | Observation | ||
Specifications
| Length: | 33' 3" | 10.1 m | |
| Height: | 13' 9" | 4.1 m | |
| Wingspan: | 46' 4" | 14.1 m | |
Propulsion
| No. of Engines: | 1 | ||
| Powerplant: | Wright R-1820 | ||
| Horsepower (each): | 1060 | ||
Performance
| Range: | 840 miles | 1,352 km | |
| Cruise Speed: | 200 mph | 322 km/h | 174 kt |
| Max Speed: | 227 mph | 365 km/h | 197 kt |
| Ceiling: | 24,100 ft | 7,345 m | |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| United States Air Force Museum | Wright-Patterson | Ohio |
O-47B on display
United States Air Force Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Arthur E. Sevigny Klamath Falls, OR | I posted a photo of a O-47 taken during the Army Day air show at Moffett Fld, CA April 6, 1940. Can anyone tell me if this is an A or B model? I have several other photos of the O-47s there. These aircraft belonged to the 82nd Tac Recon SQ.
Historian 20th Fighter Wing Assn. 03/05/2008 @ 09:27 [ref: 19866] |
| John Kuczmanski Elk Grove, CA | A O-47 was missing in Panama since 1941. It was located by a Panamanian and reported in 1999. I was a crewchief on a UH-60A Blackhawk in the 214th medevac det., Ft. Kobbe. In May 1999 I was part of a crew that flew to the hill where the wreck was found. I lowered by hoist my medic, an Air Force Major, and a Panamanian police officer who specializes in airplane wrecks and recoveries. They verified the serial numbers. About a year later the wreck site was searched by the MIA team from Hawaii and the remains of 3 airman were returned home. 03/04/2008 @ 20:41 [ref: 19864] |
| James Stewart Spring, TX | I have it on good authority that the aircraft I found buried at Esler Field is in fact a Brewster Bermuda, an aircraft I had never heard of until now.
James T. Stewart 08/20/2007 @ 13:53 [ref: 17693] |
| James Stewart Spring, TX | Lt. Wilmer Esler was killed in an O-47 at a satellite field of Camp Bearegard in Pineville, LA on April 11, 1941. This field then was named Esler Field.
I have a photo (I need to find it) of part of a fuselage and part of the left wing of a large fuselage radial engine airplane which was partially buried in a dump on Esler Field. (This is a paper photo taken long before digital cameras.) I have never been able to identigy this airplane. It had a rectangular air intake on the left wing near the fuselage. Does anyone know where I can find a photo of that portion of an O-47? I have an uncle who lived on Esler Field (with my grandparents from 1947 until about 1956 or thereabouts) who showed me this dump and several pieces of airplanes sticking out of the ground including an identifiable P-40. But I never could identify this one particular aircraft with a fat fuselage and wing. I thought it was a P-47, but it has that rectangular air vent in the leading edge of the left wing that I have never seen on the few P-47's I have seen at airshows... Also, I have looked at photos of P-43's and Brewster Buffalo's and don't believe that is what the aircraft was, though I could be mistaken. (I need to find my photo which is now probably 20 years old to refresh my memory.) So, if anyone has a photo of the left wing root of the the O-47, I would sure like to get a copy. James T. Stewart 07/29/2007 @ 18:43 [ref: 17342] |
| Todd Jacobson Lyons, CO | My second cousin and two others were killed in a crash of an O-47 in late 1941 out of Biggs. Last year we located the site in the middle of White Sands Missile Range. I have loaded a photo of the same plane involved in another fatal several months earlier. It was rebuilt and crashed again killing my second cousin. 06/21/2007 @ 13:41 [ref: 16903] |
| Glenn E. Chatfield North Liberty, IA | There is also an O-47A at the National Air and Space Museum 05/06/2005 @ 05:30 [ref: 10128] |
| lazewski warsaw, PE | To make a model can someone send me a picture of the cockpit please. 07/03/2004 @ 07:01 [ref: 7739] |
| Jon S. Aldridge Springfield, MO | Gentlemen,
If reference to the North American O-47. Your site lists the USAF Museum as the only known location. There is an O-47 on display at the Combat Air Museum, Forbes Field, Topeka, Kansas. It is billed as one of the three remaining airframes. Anyone interested should contact CAM for information on this and many other unique aircraft including a Meyers OTW, serial number 1, an F-4 Phantom II which boasts having downed a Mig without firing a single shot, a Tiger formerly flown by the Blue Angles, a beautiful TA-4J, an EC-121 Warning Star, F-86, F-101, F-105, BT-13, T-33, Harvard, Sea Stallion, Skycrane, UH-1, Seminole, Hiller, T-28, F-84, and probably the most pristine restoration of a Grumman F-9F Panther one will ever find. There are probably another dozen aircraft I have not listed. Combat Air Museum, Hangars 603 & 604, J Street, Forbes Field, Topeka, Kansas, 785, 862-3303. As aviation museum's go it's one of the best. J.S. Aldridge, Springfield, MO. 02/25/2003 @ 02:08 [ref: 6341] |
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