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Fairchild C-26 Metroliner
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,〔(DoD 412.15 Military )〕 but is unofficially known by the same name as its civilian counterpart.〔(Fairchild Air Force Base C-26B Metroliner page )〕 The C-26A is the military version of the Model SA227-AC Metro III; the C-26B is the military version of the Model SA227-BC Metro III and Model SA227-DC Metro 23; and UC-26C is the military designation for the Model SA227-AT Merlin IVC.
==Design and development==
The United States Air Force bought eleven C-26A aircraft based on the SA227-AC,〔(www.uswarplanes.net/commutertypes.html )〕〔(Turboprop Production Lists Home Page ) Metro production list accessed via this site 25 August 2007.〕 two of these being supplied to the Venezuelan Air Force.〔Baugher, Joe. ("USAF FY1986 Serial Number list." ) ''USAF Aircraft.'' Retrieved: 11 June 2011.〕〔Verified by conducting an online search of the Fuerza Aérea Venezolana database at http://www.scramble.nl/dbmil.htm on 25 August 2007, using the serial numbers "0009" and "1964". It would appear that the USAF took delivery of two aircraft serialled 86-0456 and the first (Fairchild c/n AC-745B) was passed to the FAV as 0009, the second being procured to replace that aircraft. The USAF FY1986 Serial Number list has 86-0455 (Fairchild c/n AC-744B) going to the FAV, but the other sources show it was 86-0456/AC-745B.〕 The first three C-26Bs were procured later in the 1980s, two for the US Army and one for the USAF. These three had been built as SA227-BC models. Later C-26Bs were the military equivalent of the Metro 23 and the USAF took delivery of 37 examples. Some of these were transferred to the Peruvian Air Force and the US Army, while six were transferred to the US Navy as C-26Ds.〔〔Baugher, Joe. ("USAF FY1990 Serial Number list." ) ''USAF Aircraft.'' Retrieved: 11 June 2011.〕〔Baugher, Joe. ("USAF FY1991 Serial Number list." ) ''USAF Aircraft.'' Retrieved: 11 June 2011.〕 The US Army also took a second-hand Merlin IVC and operated it as the solitary UC-26C.〔
A Metro III, c/n AC-614, was modified as the Fairchild Aircraft/Lockheed Multi Mission Surveillance Aircraft, featuring a Lockheed phased array radar in a long pod under the fuselage.〔"Coastwatch Tender to Usher In New Age of Surveillance." ''Australian Aviation'' magazine No. 93, December 1993, pp. 24–27. Aerospace Publications Pty. Ltd. ISSN 0813-0876.〕 Several aspects of the MMSA aircraft were incorporated on some USAF C-26s redesignated as the RC-26B, operated by the Air National Guard (ANG) in various states. These aircraft have been primarily used for Department of Defense reconnaissance mission support to various agencies of the Department of Homeland Security such as the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the War on Drugs, and to USCG and/or the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the wake of natural disasters.〔("C-26." ) ''Globalsecurity.org.'' Retrieved: 11 June 2011.〕 The RC-26B aircraft were originally configured with a belly pod containing a sensor turret and a data recorder.〔(Picture of the Fairchild RC-26B Metro 23 (SA-227DC) aircraft ) Retrieved 21 August 2011.〕 Recently, this pod has been removed and a sensor turret has been added to the belly of the aircraft.〔(Picture of the Fairchild RC-26B Metro 23 (SA-227DC) aircraft ) Retrieved 21 August 2011.〕 Some of the RC-26Bs were operated for a time with civil registrations.〔(Picture of the Fairchild RC-26B Metro 23 (SA-227DC) aircraft ) Retrieved 21 August 2011.〕〔(Picture of the Fairchild RC-26B Metro 23 (SA-227DC) aircraft ) Retrieved 21 August 2011.〕
The US Navy operates several C-26D aircraft, modified for range support, at the Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands in Hawaii.〔(Picture of the Fairchild C-26D Metro 23 (SA-227DC) aircraft ) Retrieved 21 August 2011.〕〔(Picture of the Fairchild C-26D Metro 23 (SA-227DC) aircraft ) Retrieved 21 August 2011.〕
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