{"id":2697,"date":"2015-10-04T10:34:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T23:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2015-10-04T10:34:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T23:34:45","slug":"interstate-callair-cadet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=2697","title":{"rendered":"Interstate – CallAir – Cadet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lets<\/a>Here’s some news about\/from a fellow Cadet enthusiast – but first, a little background.<\/p>\n

After building about 320 S-1 Cadets of various designations, in 1942 the Interstate Aircraft and Engineering Company sold the Cadet manufacturing rights to the Harlow Aircraft Company<\/a>. Harlow had just purchased Alhambra Airport, near Los Angeles, for US$350,000 (around US$5.5 million in today’s terms) and intended to build the Cadet there. However,\u00a0business clearly did not proceed as hoped and Harlow did not manufacture a single Cadet, selling the rights in 1946 to the\u00a0Call Aircraft Company<\/a> – usually and colloquially known as CallAir – for the princely sum of US$5,000 (about US$65,000 in todays terms).<\/p>\n

CallAir too suffered pressure in the market place, primarily from the burgeoning Piper company and the\u00a0glut of post-war military aircraft coming on to the market. As a result, they manufactured but two CallAir Cadets, only one of which survives – N2922V. And this is being restored from the bare metal up by Alex Nelon, who describes himself as a ‘retired but unrepentant corporate pilot, inveterate tinkerer and sandspur farmer’, sharing\u00a0his time between Florida and North Carolina in the USA.<\/p>\n

Alex runs an excellent blog – Let’s Go Flying!<\/a> – which has\u00a0a wealth of information about aircraft of various\u00a0types, many in\u00a0the vintage category. In particular, he is recording the progress of his Cadet restoration<\/a>, in between flying trips in a J-3 Cub and, more recently, a Woody’s Pusher<\/a>, although from the latest post on his blog, it looks like Woody is moving on to new adventures with a new owner…<\/p>\n

Alex seems like a man after my own heart – Interstate\/CallAir Cadet, open air flying and old aircraft. And he writes a nice turn of phrase in his blog, which you can access by clicking either the picture above or\u00a0here: Let’s Go Flying!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s some news about\/from a fellow Cadet enthusiast – but first, a little background. After building about 320 S-1 Cadets of various designations, in 1942 the Interstate Aircraft and Engineering Company sold the Cadet manufacturing rights to the Harlow Aircraft … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[251,497,591,1088],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}