Warbird Information Exchange

Hello, I’ve been hanging a few old plane parts in my garage. I bought this prop on ebay about a year ago without knowing just what it was. I had a mount fabricated, and it is being turned into a ceiling fan.



I have been able to find out that it is a Hartzell. So when I repainted it (with the closest to original colors that I could find.) I put new Hartzell stickers on the blades.

I like to be able to tell friends what aircraft the parts in my garage came from. So, my question is, What type of aircraft would this prop have been used on? Each blade is 34 inches long, and from the center of the hub to the tip of the blade is 39 inches. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Might be a DHC-2 Beaver prop. Several of the conversion/upgrade kits offer a 3-blade prop like that, but I think they're a bit bigger (95-100 inch diameter) and most seem to use the Hamilton-Standard prop instead of Hartzell. Might be a lead though.

Could you get a model number off the prop somewhere then look that up online? It might be worth taking the model number and doing a search for ADs too since they may list the types the prop was installed on.

-Tim

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Perhaps a light twin...Aero Commander?

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It might have come off a Nord 3202. A number of them were imported by Tallichet (sp?) in the 80's. Potez 4D34 4-cylinder supercharged inline 4 cyl. with a Hartzell 3 blade that they were desperate to get back so they could destroy them. I used the firewall forward from one in my Chipmunk:

http://www.popav.com/PhotoGallery/1915.jpg
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DL

I did a web search on the Nord 3202, and it certainly looks like the same prop.

Not long ago I remembered that when I bought the prop, the seller also had a large set of De Havilland snow skis and this got me thinking. Most of the photos of De Havilland Beavers that I have seen feature a three bladed Hartzell. I just found a photo of a Beaver without a spinner, and the prop looks identical to mine also.

http://images3.jetphotos.net/img/1/1/3/ ... 648731.jpg

Thank you very much!