Seversky på Sverigevisit
Seversky EP-1 NX2587 på Malmen 1939.
Ovanstående artikel hittade jag - när man som vanligt letade efter något helt annat - i nummer 21 från 1939 av tidningen Flygning. Den är klickbar för att underlätta läsning.
Det var under en Europaturné som den ryskfödde amerikanske flygplantillverkaren
Alexander de Seversky besökte Sverige med sin Seversky EP-1 (EP som i Export Pursuit) med amerikansk civil registrering NX2587.
Det hände en del i Severskys bolag medan han var Europa så att säga "bakom hans rygg". Senare på året bytte man namn på det till Republic Aviation Corporation. Notera att det står just Republic på fenan på NX2587 på bilden nedan.
Det har genom åren skrivits en hel del om flygplantypen här på bloggen, bland annat om de exemplar som inte kom att levereras till Sverige. Kolla gärna till exempel inläggen Nordenskiölds Seversky -1, Nordenskiölds Seversky -2, Nordenskiölds Seversky -3, Nordenskiölds Seversky - 4, Nordenskiölds Seversky - 5, J 9 hos F 20 - Air To Air, Packade J 9, J 9-vrak på Bunge, F 9 museisamling och Svenska jaktplan på Filippinerna ...den sista apropå den sista beställningen som inte kom fram till Sverige...
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Matsen skickade följande tre bilder som han hittade i Kalle Flaps album. Som synes är de tagna på Malmen...
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Vad hände sedan med NX2587? Följande saxas ur en artikel skriven av Dan Hagedorn:
Seversky EP-1, MSN 147. Built in September 1938, and sometimes cited as the EP-1-68, the actual Seversky documents in the CAA file for this aircraft never identified it as anything but EP-1. This was an extremely well-traveled aircraft, used by Seversky (which became Republic Aviation Corp. in early 1940) for extensive demonstrations in Europe. Described as a single seat, cabin land monoplane, it was powered by a 1,200-hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830-SlC-G and was approved for Experimental License NX-2587 November 22, 1938. It was shipped to Paris, France early in 1939 for demonstrations there by Seversky himself as well as Burrell and Hopla. Later, it was also demonstrated in Belgium, Norway, Sweden, England and Poland. It was hastily crated and shipped home when Germany invaded Poland. Following re-assembly, short-range outer wing panels and smaller capacity fuel tanks were substituted for the originals. Like the other sister ships, it was sold to the International Aircraft Trading Co. October 10, 1941, for $40,000.00 and subsequently shipped to Ecuador where it became C-1 and, later, FAE 200. It is worth noting that one source erroneously reported that this very aircraft (along with the single AP-9, NX-2598) had been sold to the Dominican Republic in 1940, probably a failed earlier deal of Bellanca’s.
End of the line, Quito, Ecuador, May 10, 1969. Seversky EP-1 msn 147, formerly NX-2587, Ecuador C-1 and FAE 200 sits forlorn on a concrete pad following its destruction as a target in 1959 and subsequent use as a crash-crew trainer. The fuselage was still in remarkably good condition, all things considered. It has been reportedly stored in a hangar in Quito, but this cannot be verified. (Photo: Author.)
