Air-Britain Archive 2000-03 / Search & Return

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: NX707Y

From Charles Trask comes this photo of the Huntington Chum, taken by brother Paul Trask on 27.6.81 at Orange, Massachusetts. Only two were produced and it was offered with "a 33hp Continental, a 45hp Szekely or a 30hp Genet" according to an advertisement in Aero Digest of April 1931. The price with the Szekely was $1,750. The reason that NX707Y survives is that it was crashed on an early flight but in 1943 the fuselage was fitted with skids and used as a powered sled. The remains were acquired by Erwin E Stockwell at Orange and rebuilt, making its first post-restoration flight on 24.10.80. It originally had a Szekely engine but this disappeared and Stockwell replaced it with a flat four which looks like it may be a Continental A-40. Just before his death Erwin Stockwell donated the sole surviving Huntington Chum to the Empire State Aerosciences Museum at Schenectady County Airport.
In the photo it can be seen to have a 2-seat side-by-side open cockpit with one-piece curved windscreen. It is now considered a homebuilt as there were no drawings for the wing or other missing parts. Does anyone know more about the original or current dimensions, the designer/builder Huntington, or the history of the other Chum built?