Fairchild 45

The Fairchild Model 45 was an American five-seat cabin monoplane of the 1930s, designed as a business or executive aircraft. It was a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a retractable tailwheel undercarriage and a luxury interior, and the prototype first flew on 31 May 1935 with a 225 hp Jacobs L-4 radial engine. Testing showed good performance but sedate handling, so Fairchild re-engined the prototype with a Wright R-760 radial as the Model 45-A and put that version into production, with about sixteen built. The United States Navy bought one as the JK-1 and the Army Air Forces impressed two as the UC-88. The type later figured in the legal dispute that produced the Herrick amendment on old type certificate data.