If you have a historical photo of the Aeronca Chief, send me a copy and I'll put it right here to help other restorers... we're especially interested in the period from 1945 to 1960 and color photos would be great!
This is really an interesting photo from a historical perspective. An 11AC Chief, with the Tall-A Aeronca design on the tail, with wind generator on the struts, a
trailing wire antenna and floats... probably a very heavy single-place Chief! note the ventral fin underneath, the rudder cables....there is a lot to study here... also note the wing tip lights. Photo is from the Seattle-Kenmore area.
This is a neat set of photos via the internet at a Father's day greeting site! Herb Cunniff had a 1948 11AC (were they making 11AC's in 1948? The sales brochure doesn't list them, only the 11CC model) at Park Forest, Illinois in 1956. The grass runway was 1,700 feet long! Note the interior and exterior colors... yellow and red, more of a Champ yellow.
The exterior colors are a second coat of dope, not factory applied if you look at the tail which is orange, but the interior is probably stock, since the plane is less than 10 years old at this point!
Above-- this is a very rare color slide from the 1946 period at Aeronca. In fact, it is the only one I've been able to find after 7 years of research! It documents the interior tubing colors and the browns and greys that were used. The color in this scan of a photo taken from the slide has been enhanced and the flesh tones and red fire extinquisher has been used to try and balance this old slide (although the sky is a bit too purple!)....you can also document the wheel pant design and placement here too.
This isn't a link... but did you know that this GeoCities graphic is an Aeronca Ascender? A Burt Rutan canard in 1930, it flew with an Aeronca E-113 engine off of a Aeronca C-2!
Here is your Aeronca history lesson for today... complete with a lot of vintage clipart and neat graphics.. Click on the photo of 3286E and me outside the hangar in Othello!
Here is a link to the Aeronca photos of the 1997 Evergreen FlyIn in Vancouver, Washington.... sponsored by the NWAAA it's a good way to see some vintage airplanes and Aeroncas! You'll fly with me to Vancouver in NC3286E across Eastern Washington, up the Columbia River to Portland!
OK, on to the next Page.... Want to see some neat old Ad's for the Aeronca Chief and some post-war magazine articles?
Interested in putting a skylight in your Chief? Here's how I did it with the FAA 337 pages included.....Click the Aeronca Chief to go there
Modified on April 18, 1999, except when GeoCities crunched the web page on October 17, 1999-UGH!
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