Fairchild 91 Baby Clipper

The Fairchild 91, also known as the A-942 and the Baby Clipper, was a single-engine eight-passenger flying boat airliner developed in the United States in the mid-1930s. Fairchild designed it after Pan American Airways asked for a small flying boat for river routes such as the Amazon and the Yangtze, producing a conventional high-wing cantilever monoplane with its radial engine above the wing in a streamlined nacelle. Pan American took only two before cancelling the rest of its order. Other aircraft went to the American Museum of Natural History for Richard Archbold expedition work in New Guinea, to the Royal Air Force for air-sea rescue in Egypt, and to the Imperial Japanese Navy for evaluation.