Grumman G-73 Mallard

Retaining many of the features of the smaller aircraft, such as twin radial engines, high wings with underwing floats, retractable landing gear and a large straight tail, the company built 59 Mallards between 1946 and 1951.Unlike the smaller aircraft, the Mallard featured tricycle gear, stressed skin, a two-step hull and wingtip fuel tanks.While the Mallard was designed for regional airline operations with two pilots and ten passengers, especially aimed at harbor-based, city-to-city hops on the eastern seaboard, postwar surplus aircraft sales and the availability of smaller airports limited market potential.Fruehauf owned and operated a fishing camp, Killarney Lodge at Georgian Bay, Canada, and ferried customers there from Detroit.The type received much attention after a Turbo Mallard, operating as Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101, crashed after takeoff from Miami Harbor on December 19, 2005, bound for Bimini, Bahamas.
G-73 Mallard at the Air Zoo
Northern Consolidated Air G-73 Mallard ( Katmai National Park & Preserve )
Turbo Mallard of Chalk's International Airline on a scheduled service at Bimini , Bahamas , in November 1989 after arriving from Miami Harbor. This aircraft crashed as Flight 101 in 2005.
3-view line drawing of the Grumman G-73 Mallard
3-view line drawing of the Grumman G-73 Mallard
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