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Fairchild C-26 Metroliner The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (previously the Swearingen Metro and later Fairchild Aerospace Metro ) is a 19-seat, pressurized , twin- turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San Antonio , Texas .
The Fairchild C-26 "Metroliner" is the designation for the Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner series twin turboprop aircraft in the service of the United States military.It was not officially named by the US Armed Forces, [1] but is unofficially known by the same name as its civilian counterpart. [2]
Bearskin Airlines C-FFZN SA227-AC Metroliner operating out of Red Lake, Ontario, c. 2007. In July 2016, 225 Fairchild Swearingen Metroliners were in airline service: 170 in Americas, 28 in Asia Pacific & Middle East and 27 in Europe.
On the evening of Friday, February 1, 1991, USAir Flight 1493, a Boeing 737-300, collided with SkyWest Airlines Flight 5569, a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner turboprop aircraft, upon landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
A light aircraft crashed after taking off from Malta, killing all five people on board in the island nation's worst peacetime air accident.
Before 1971, Fairchild Industries was a term used to include many of the companies of its founder Sherman Mills Fairchild. After the name change, the company purchased Swearingen and manufactured the Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner, a successful commuter aircraft that gained orders from the U.S. military as the C-26 Metroliner.
Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner C-26 Metroliner The Swearingen Merlin or the Fairchild Aerospace Merlin is a pressurized, twin turboprop business aircraft first produced by Swearingen Aircraft , and later by Fairchild at a plant in San Antonio , Texas .
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