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Adding to my Lycoming powered vehicle series with a Stinson Reliant SR-9, powered with a Lycoming R-680 radial.
Build:
This AMT kit is a 1970’s era kit. The build was straight forward with no major problems. Along with normal [...]
The Stinson Reliant is a popular single-engine four- to five-seat high-wing monoplane manufactured by the Stinson Aircraft Division of the Aviation Manufacturing Corporation of Wayne, Michigan.
The Reliant is a high-wing, fixed-tailwheel [...]
Once upon a time, in an age before cell phones, there existed a certain kind of airport with certain kinds of airplanes . . . The Stinson and Beech Staggerwing are courtesy of Mr. Terrence Davis. I had these kits in my build-project [...]
Only one Stinson Reliant served with the US Coast Guard, being commissioned during 1935, serving until 1941. The Service used the aircraft as a flying "Radio Test" bed for long distance aerial radio communications, a novel idea [...]