Photo: © Ralph Pettersen.
This is how N127HP looked on 03May2003, for many years now stored with Hawkins & Powers..
The following information was provided to me by Charles E. 'Charlie' Snyder : I came across your website while researching Fairchild turboprop aircraft for another endeavour. I was curious about c/n 33 and consulted my old notes and did some further research. Perhaps the following history of N127HP, c/n 33, will be of some interest to you. The Fairchild F-27F, current registration N127HP (with Hawkins & Powers of Greybull,WY), was formerly operated by Imperial Aviation (possibly for a U.S. Naval Air Development Center in the U.S. - actual location of basing to be determined by additional research -see below-) with a prior registration of N1004. In its military life it was unofficially designated as a UC-27 with military (Navy) registration number 161628. This information is from unofficial records that I located in the remains of the Fairchild original equipment manufacturer engineering files in Hagerstown, Maryland, U.S. in the late 1990's. The following is corroboration (and additional details) of my personal research through URL; with the technical information sources below the text: www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_other/c-31a.html (link was found dead in June 2005). A single example of the Fairchild built F-27A (equivalent to the F27 Series 200) was obtained by the US Navy. It was unofficially designated UC-27A. It was formerly operated by Butler Aviation (Pepsi Cola Bottling Company), to which it was delivered on 10 April 1959 as N1004. It was assigned to the Naval Air Development Center (NADC) for special duties. Later, it was assigned as a support aircraft for the Atlantic Underwater Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) and operated for the US Navy by Imperial Aviation. By 1994, it was used by the Naval Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division (NAWC - AD) and by May 1996, it was out of US Navy service and serialled N1004 again. Aad van der Voet (of OldWings.nl) photographed this bird at West Palm Beach,FL on 27Oct86; click on the image for a larger photo. July 2023: after disassembly put on transport to Hagerstown Aviation Museum. |
| Serial of the Fokker F-27A (redesignated F-27F mod) Friendship 161628 Fokker F-27A Friendship Construction number 33 Specification of the Fokker F-27A Friendship Sources : Respectfully submitted, |
Jan Homma emailed me in Feb.2005 a full history of this Fairchild F.27F in Excel format.
Herbert Ayer wrote me the following in June 2005: |
Steve Lauer wrote me in Jan.2007: "A couple of us picked up N1004 (your N127HP) at Albuquerque to temporarily replace FH-227 N7801M (former Mohawk aircraft), which was in repair because of an on-ground gear collapse... N7801M was out of service a couple of times: it also had an engine fire and another one after that... This was in the early-1980s. I was chief pilot for Imperial during the entire evolution of N1004 becoming a Navy aircraft and a temporary replacement for 7801M to support the AUTEC contract (twice). So N1004 filled in and was transferred to NAS Warminster,PA between events. As I recall, the original livery was red and white while it was assigned to Ross (AEC/DOE). The story was that Champion Batteries was also one of the previous users." My (webmaster) reply: N7801M was involved in an incident 1980 according to NTSB website. Later it went to Bamiyan A/L and last recorded as stored in Tehran. So both sit waiting in the desert for things (or the scrapman) to come! |
In Sep.2006 I received word that B&G Industries (the company which had taken over H&P at Greybull,WY) had started work on N127HP. In Oct.2016 I read in an aviation enthusiasts magazine the following update: "N127HP Ex Philippi Equipment, reg'd to Hagerstown Aviation Museum in Maryland and is expected to move there soon." (Scramble #449, Oct.2016). |
Hagerstown Aviation Museum 25Jul2023 · BREAKING NEWS!.... N127HP, from Greybull to Hagerstown, 2023! Photos published on Facebook by the museum in July 2023.
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07Feb24 update from Ralph's www.proplinerinfoexchange.com "Reassembly of F-27F N127HP has begun at the Hagerstown Aviation Museum. As reported [previously -RL], the aircraft was donated to the museum a few years ago and it was determined that the best way to transport the aircraft from Greybull, Wyoming to Hagerstown, Maryland was to disassemble and move it by road. The fuselage arrived at the museum on July 27th (2023) with the final components arriving on February 4, 2024. The museum posted the following report and photos on its Facebook page." |
Here is N127HP on Airliners.net
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Last updated 20.9.2006
