Chance CHW-1???

[petebutt43@hotmail.com]

Anyone got info on this?

 

[hesham]

Nice find,but please we want more Info ?,years,country or any link ?.

 

[petebutt43@hotmail.com]

Nice find,but please we want more Info ?,years,country or any link ?.

The prints have Sep 56 on them. Reg N64000

 

[riggerrob]

FAA registration N64000 was later applied to a Cessna 180K built in 1977. The Cessna was later sold to New Brunswick.

 

[petebutt43@hotmail.com]

The prints have Sep 56 on them. Reg N64000

The bag the prints came in Has Courier CHW-1 on it

 

[Aerohydro]

Lifted from elsewhere on this forum - this snippet originally appeared in the August 13, 1951 issue of "Aviation Week".

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The three men responsible for the craft (Crosby, Harrick, Welborn) may well be why it's been named the "CHW-1".

 

[Aerohydro]

And from newspapers.com, here is an article which had appeared in the Lafayette, Indiana "Journal and Courier" newspaper in 1954. The article describes the follow-up to the CHW-1; the new machine being more substantial and powered by two 150hp engines.

The article also details that one of people connected to the project is Thomas Herrick - not Harrick as the "Aviation Week" snippet has it - who was an engineering professor at Purdue University.

The masthead may explain why the word "Courier" appears on the bag that the photographic prints had come in.