steve dickey wrote:
Whats the second scoop for, duel carbs?? Just kidding, no really whats it for?
Thanks.
That means the aircraft is a French T-28S Fennec. They had supercharged Wright R-1820-96 engines and the rear air scoop is an air cooler intake.
There are several of these Fennec's in the US. If you look at the planes currently or previously regd. in the N141** bracket you will find those that were sold surplus by France to Waco Pacific Inc of Van Nuys CA. Some were then sold on to air forces around the world through Winter-Wolff & Co of New York (which might have bought the entire batch from Waco Pacific), with some returning to the US in the late 70s and early 80s.
N14141 seems to have been one that didn't venture abroad again after returning to the US in 1968. There is a photo of it in Steve Ginter's book "The T-28 in Navy, Air Force, & foreign service". It shows 141 on a snowy ramp in Jan, 1973, plain aluminium with the N# in black on the fuselage. It got its US CofA in June 1975.
As for owner Ray Karrels, he was a Port Washington, WI airport operator who died of a heart attack in 1982. He also owned another T-28 and an A-26 (at least) in the 1970s. His widow Caroline then became regd. owner of N14141. As to its fate, who knows...
T J