Kysor Frustrated Widow (aka Torpedo Plane)

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Registered as N22C in 1949 and cancelled in 1955. has anybody got any info?

 

[fortrena]

Hoping that the following info on Clifford P. Kysor is not too off topic

 

[TomS]

Registered as N22C in 1949 and cancelled in 1955. has anybody got any info?

Are you sure it's 22C? I found a registry record for N33C, a "Frustrated Widow" model aircraft registered by Clifford Kysor in 1949 (see Deregistered aircraft 2 of 2 in the record below) That matches the registration number on the wings of the crashed plane with the very slender (and non-effective) tail surfaces that @fortrena posted. The tail vaguely resembles a torpedo in shape, which would explain the alternative name.

https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=33C

 

[Aerohydro]

Two contemporary articles about the Kysor 'torpedo plane'; one written before ... and one written after.

Also, a better print of one of the press photos taken at the time. Watermarked, unfortunately, due to it being offered by an online seller.

 

[publiusr]

My Estes had bigger tailfins

 

[Stargazer]

We already had the Kysor here:
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...twar-homebuilt-u-s-one-offs.19591/post-189331It was one of several airplanes that received the [N33C] registration but do not appear in the FAA database.