Beechcraft Staggerwing  D17S

N28A

This aircraft has been in my family since 1966.  It was modified for use in high altitude aerial photogrammetry, the modifications being a camera port in the floor and a mod to the engine.  The engine mod (14:1 blower) places the aircraft into Restricted Category on the airworthiness certificate, but I believe replacing the engine with either a standard 10:1 or STC'ed 12:1 would allow a Normal Category certification.  
Most of the documentation (logbooks, etc) were destroyed in a fire in the mid-seventies.  Total time is unknown.  I do have the airworthiness certificate, and the aircraft registration is current.  I have the FAA CD of their records.
N28A was last recovered in Grade A in the mid-sixties.  The interior is simple Grade A for weight savings.  There is no back seat.  The baggage door has been removed (an oblique camera port is installed instead).  Avionics are outdated and at this point not really worth discussing.  N28A has been hangered and in dry country the majority of it's life.  We operated out of Gunnison, Colorado, a high semi-desert environment.  I purchased the airplane from my father in 1994 and it has been in a T hanger in the Phoenix area ever since. 
This aircraft is perfect for the individual (or group) that wants really good "bones" from which to build up a beautiful  Staggerwing.  

Staggerwing

N28A

Details pending


N28A History
6760     UC-43-BH     44-67752     1944-0.-..     mfd, contract AN.31386
6760     UC-43-BH     44-67752     1944-03-23     U.S. Army Air Force
6760     UC-43-BH     44-67752     1944-03-24     Fort Dix AAB (NJ) for Lend-Lease to Britain
6760     UC-43-BH     44-67752     1944-04-13     departed
6760     Traveller Mk1     FT498     1944-..-..     Royal Navy
6760     Traveller Mk1     FT498     1944-11-..     to 1945-11-.. Station Flight, Royal NAS Anthorn, England
6760     GB-2     BuNo. 32892     194.-..-..     U.S. Navy
6760     GB-2     BuNo. 32892     1946-07-31     stricken at Norfolk NAS (VA)
6760     D17S     N9461H     1950-..-..     Mr. Clarke J. Smith (PA)
6760     D17S     N9461H     195.-..-..     Aerial Survey, Miami (FL)
6760     D17S     N28A     1956-05-29     CoA
6760     D17S     N28A     1963-..-..     Pennsylvania Aerial Survey, Miami (FL) painted red
6760     D17S     N28A     196.-..-..     supercharged for mapping work at 31,000ft for the US Geological Survey
6760     D17S     N28A     1966-07-01     Gordon B. “Rocky” Warren, Gunnison (CO)
6760     D17S     N28A     1996-08-30     Mark W. Warren, Phoenix (AZ) moved to Gunnison (CO)
6760     D17S     N28A         supercharger removed to standard on overhaul
6760     D17S     N28A     2015-02-28     expired