GoPro footage taken on June 04, 2016. My Friend Wayne Frank & I flew with Rick Rezabek in his Immaculate 1937 Stinson Reliant SR-9FD (Deluxe) Gull-Wing at the Agua Dulce Airport Community Fundraiser Presented by: Agua Dulce Airport Association. (See below for some information on NC18425 provided by Mr. Rezabek)
Thank you to my wife Gail for all the footage shot from the ground.
1937 Stinson Reliant SR-9FD (Deluxe)
NC 18425
S/N 5715
Date of Mfg: Aug 10, 1937
Place of Manufacture: Wayne, Michigan & Manufactured for Civilian use however from 1942- 1945
the military pulled this SR-9FD from Katherine May Edwards Pittsburgh, PA and sent it to Republic Aircraft in E. Farmingdale, NY and NC18425 spent the majority of WW II, as a Corporate Asset, mostly at their Evansville, Indiana P-47 Thunderbolt manufacturing plant, where it was used to check out new test pilots, in addition to general transportation of company personnel.
Features of NC18425
Rare factory version with Pratt & Whitney Wasp Jr Engine (2 flying now as of 2015)
Original Sale Price in 1937 - $18,000. (Houses were about $4000 in 1937).
Aircraft has no damage history since new.
All original sheet metal. cowls, wheel pants, fuselage, landing gear struts.
Cleveland brakes STC’ed 1999
Jasco 12V Alternator STC’ed 1999
Engine P&W R-985-AN-1, S/N 23846
450 HP at T/O rating, Single Stage Supercharged.
Engine has been installed in NC18245 since 1951.