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    Airframe Family: Turner RT-14 Meteor
    Latest Model:RT-14 Meteor
    Construction Number:1
    Last Civil Registration:N263Y {1}
    Compressed ID:Turner RT-14 cn 1 cr N263Y
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    1936

    Constructed as a RT-14.
    The aircraft is a conventional geared mid-wing monoplane with a radial engine built in California by the Lawrence Brown Aircraft Company

    1936

    It was modified in 1936 by Mattie Laird at the E. M. Laird Airplane Company in Chicago with three-foot longer wings, wing flaps, a longer fuselage and a 50 U.S. gallons (190 L; 42 imp gal) fuel tank.

    1936

    To Roscoe Turner with new c/r N263Y {1}.
    Operated with markings: 29

    1937

    Markings Applied: Ring-Free Meteor
    Sponsored by Ring-Free Oil Company.

    1938

    Markings Applied: The Pesco Special
    Sponsored by Pump Engineering Service Corporation.

    1938


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels Collection
    Notes: The start of the 1938 Cleveland Air Race - No 3 plane in center, Marcoux-Bromberg special, pilot Earl Ortman, far left Wedell Williams 44,Roscoe Turner owned, flown by Joe Mackey with the Turner RT in the foreground

    September 1938


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels

    Circa September 1938

    Winner of the 1938 Thompson Trophy.

    1939

    Markings Applied: Miss Champion
    Sponsored by Champion Spark Plug Company.

    1939


    Photographer: Charles M. Daniels

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    From 1939 to Circa 1968

    Stored at Weir Airport.Cook.

    Restored.

    Donated to the Frederick G. Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum.

    1972

    To Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, VA.
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    8 May 2009


    Photographer: Matt Maranto

    15 May 2018


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: at Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum
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