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The same year the Merlin III was replaced by the SA226-T Merlin IIIA, with an extra window on the right side of the cabin and a small window aft of the airstair on each side of the fuselage. Customers for the Merlin IIIA included the Argentinian Air Force , the Argentine Army and the Belgian Air Force .
An all-new aircraft was built and named the SA226-T Merlin III with a new nose, wings, landing gear, cruciform horizontal tail [note 1] and inverted inlet Garrett engines. Ultimately a stretch of the Merlin III was designed, sized to seat 22 passengers and called the SA226-TC Metro .
The Merlin's fuselage and vertical fin represented Swearingen's contribution to the overall design. The next step was turbine power, through the SA26-T Merlin IIA with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6s and the follow-on SA26-AT Merlin IIB with Garrett TPE331 turboprops. Next came the all-new SA226-T Merlin III with new wings, landing gear and ...
Merlin Express was a Part 135/121 cargo and passenger airline operating at its peak throughout the United States, North and South Caribbean, South America, Alaska, and Mexico. The airline began operations in 1983 as Sat-Air , a subsidiary of Fairchild Aircraft.
Operated Mitsubishi MU-2, Swearingen SA226-TC Metro II [280] New Air & Tours: Calgary: 2006 – 2008 Rebranded as Enerjet before starting [281] Newfoundland Aero Sales and Services : St. John's: 1948 – 1949 Acquired by Eastern Provincial Airways [282] Newfoundland Air Transport: Deer Lake: 1961 – 1979 Renamed Newfoundland & Labrador Air ...
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]
Fairchild Swearingen SA226: Utility aircraft United States: 6: One SA226-T Metro IIIB [39] and seven SA226-AT Merlin IVA. [40] North American Sabreliner 75A (Sabreliner 80) [41] Business jet United States: 1: Acquired in 1974. [42] Cessna 550B Citation II: Business jet United States: 1: Acquired in 2015 to replace the Merlin IV. [43] Cessna ...
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.