FAA DC-3 Replacement Competition of 1960s

[hesham]

From FAA Aviation News 1964,

this competition was intended to replace Douglas DC-3,the main tenders were;

Learjet Model-?
Hughes M-? or Model-?
Culver City Type-?
Republic AP-?
Farmingdale Type-?
Jerome Type-?
Parkville Type-?
Fairchild Stratos M-?
Hagerstown Type-?
ACME may A-3 ?

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/acme-anser-twin-jet-amphibian-project-of-1958.25974/

Nord (France) may N.3500 ? or N.3700 ?
Potez 88 ?

The mystery to sad they are seven companies from USA and two from France ?.

 

[Arjen]

Top right aircraft looks like Potez 840
Bottom right aircraft looks like Nord 262

 

[Archibald]

1960's FAA really was different. SST and then, that ?

 

[BlackBat242]

Most DC-3s had already been replaced by Convair's post-war CV-240/340/440 family... and the CV-540 (Napier Eland) & CV-580 (Allison 501) turboprop conversions of the 340s/440s in the mid-late 1950s (and the early 1960s CV-600 (240) and CV-640s (340/440) RR Dart conversions.

These were tricycle-gear aircraft, significantly increasing passenger comfort (and improving loading/unloading) on the ground over the DC-3s.

 

[KF99]

The best DC-3 replacement is a newly built DC-3.

 

[Arjen]

Top left aircraft looks slightly like the Fokker F27 - Fairchild licence-produced it as the Fairchild F-27.
In 1964, Fairchild held office in Hagerstown, Republic held office in Farmingdale.
Reading part of the scanned text:

Hughes Tool Company, Aircraft Division, Culver City, Calif.; Republic Aviation Corp., Farmingdale, N.Y.; Jerome J Witte, Parkville, Mo.; Fairchild Stratos Corp., Hagerstown, Md.;

From FAA Aviation News 1964,

this competition was intended to replace Douglas DC-3,the main tenders were;

Learjet Model-?
Hughes M-? or Model-?
Culver City Type-?
Republic AP-?
Farmingdale Type-?
Jerome Type-?
Parkville Type-?
Fairchild Stratos M-?
Hagerstown Type-?
ACME may A-3 ?

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/acme-anser-twin-jet-amphibian-project-of-1958.25974/

Nord (France) may N.3500 ? or N.3700 ?
Potez 88 ?

The mystery to sad they are seven companies from USA and two from France ?.

Culver City, Farmingdale, Parkville and Hagerstown are not companies, they are places where companies held office.
That reduces your list to seven US companies, two French companies.
- Lear Jet
- Hughes
- Republic
- Jerome J Witte
- Fairchild
- J Morrow
- Air Craft Marine Engineering
- Nord
- Potez
Fairchild F-27 image from wiki.

 

[hesham]

Thank you my dear Arjen,

and that's Hughes proposal.

 

[Dynoman]

"In 1964, Pratt & Whitney of Canada, an engine manufacturer with a history of successful aircraft engines, announced a new turboprop engine, the PT-6, which was highly suitable for aircraft in the 12,500-lb commuter category, A year earlier the Low-Cost Plane Design Committee of the Association of Local Transport Airlines (ALTA), the trade association of the local service airlines, had issued a report calling for anew aircraft designed specifically for low-density air service-a so-called “DC-3 replacement.” The availability of an appropriate engine, along with the impetus of the ALTA report, contributed to the development of two new twin turboprop airplanes in the 15- to 19-seat range that were well suited to commercial low-density markets: the Canadian DHC-6 Twin Otter, made available in 1966 and designed primarily as a general-purpose bush airplane; and the Beech 99, first produced in 1967 for the corporate and air-taxi market. By 1970, commuter operators had purchased 134 of these two aircraft, representing about 75 percent of the over-15-seataircraft in the commuter fleet." - Air Service to Small Communities, February 1982

I'm curious if the FAA DC-3 replacement originated with the ALTA airplane report. However, De Havilland and Beech, who are not on the list, were direct benefactors of the ALTA report.

 

[Apophenia]

So, we've got ...

- Lear Jet Model 40 = 28 pax; 2 x R-R RB.183 Spey Juniors
-- Later (c.1965) enlarged at 40 pax, 2 x RB.163 Speys
- Hughes H-385 = compound rotorcraft; twin GE T64 turboshafts
- Republic Aviation RC-4 = 14 pax; 2 x 800 shp P&WC PT6A
-- RC-4 is the aircraft illustrated (top left) in attachment 30-png
- Jerome J Witte = (??)
- Fairchild Stratos Corporation = F-27F Friendship (no 'Fairchild Stratos M-?')
- J Morrow = (??)
- Air Craft Marine Engineering = (??) [1]
- Nord = N.262 (as Arjen already mentioned)
- Potez = 840 (as Arjen already mentioned)

The questions remain, who the heck were Jerome J. Witte of Parksville, MO, and J. Morrow of St. Augustine, FL?

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[1] I am assuming that "ACME may[be] A-3 ?" is a purely imaginary designation based solely on our knowledge of that firms A 1 Anser and A 2 Avocet?

 

[hesham]

Hi,

we don't know who is Morrow,in Aerofiles,there was Morrow Aircraft Corp. by H.B. Morrow only,
and about Fairchild,it could be FH-327 ?.

From Interavia 1964
Also Aeroplane 1964.

American airplanes: Mi - Mu

 

[Apophenia]

we don't know who is Morrow,in Aerofiles,there was Morrow Aircraft Corp. by H.B. Morrow only,
and about Fairchild,it could be FH-327 ?

Rather unlikely. Your clipping is from July 1964 and the Fairchild-Hiller FH-327 concept wouldn't be revealed until May of 1965.
(Original Source: FAA Aviation News, Vol.3, No.3, July 1964, page 3.)

There are plenty of references to Fairchild Stratos being renamed Fairchild Hiller Corp. after their 1964 purchase of Hiller Aircraft Corp (although such sources never provide an actual date for that renaming). Your source clearly identifies the Fairchild Stratos Corp. ... not Fairchild Hiller.

(I note that GAO document B-153279 of 23 December 1964 is addressed to Fairchild Hiller. So, does anyone know the exact date of that name change?)

I, too, have tried searching for this 'J Morrow' of St. Augustine, FL, before. And with no luck. Alas, Morrow is a common surname in the US - in the same edition of FAA Aviation News, an FAA employee named Cole Morrow is mentioned. So, Howard Morrow - being of an earlier generation and based out of southern California - can probably be discounted as a same-last-name coincidence.