1933 Stinson SR Reliant, c/n 8732, NC13477; powered by one 225-hp Lycoming R-680-17 nine-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine with constant-speed two-blade propeller; floats; pilot, four passengers, bushplane; built by Aviation Manufacturing Corporation, Stinson Aircraft Division, Wayne, Michigan, USA; NC13477, Russell “Duke” Riley, Boston, Massachusetts in 1933; flew as a landplane with many pilots in the Northeast before being switched to floats for water landings; it flew in Alaska, beginning in 1979, sometimes equipped with skis.
Hanging in flying configuration in the Great Gallery, The Museum of Flight, King County International Airport/Boeing Field (BFI), Seattle, Washington on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 10:21 am.
At 10:22 am.
[Casio Exilim EX-Z20 point-and-shoot 8.1 MP digital camera, 38–114-mm f/3.1–5.9 lens]
© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, December 2010
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