Can anyone ID this aircraft type?

Some of it is knowing you’ve seen that aeroplane in my own library.

😀 I’m fairly sure I haven’t seen that in your library.

Some of it is knowing one has seen that aeroplane in ones own library. 🙂 I have a large run of the ACCA yearbooks. I also answered this one on Hyperscale. a few nights ago. I seldom look on the internet.

John 🙂

True, but you need some basic knowledge to find things, even on the internet.

Lots of knowledge here in forum, lots of knowledge…..

Some of that ‘knowledge’ is based on where to start searching the internet and not all personal knowledge.;)

Thanks for your answers, never heard about Kreider Reisner, or seen the aicraft, before.

Lots of knowledge here in forum, lots of knowledge…..

It’s a Kreider Reisner XC31

Thanks! Never heard of it before. Found this at the USAF Museum website:

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=3290

KR and American were both forerunners of Fairchild, so the resemblance between the Pilgrim and the XC-31 might not be coincidence. The USAAC also bought and operated four Pilgrims under the designation Y1C-24 and they were nicknamed “Yics.” The 1 in the designation was a bookkeeping device to show that the planes had been procured with F1 supplemental funds rather than the regular appropriation.

It’s a Kreider Reisner XC31

John

An American Pilgrim being used as an icing testbed?