User:Nigel Ish/Sandbox Weatherly 201

The Weatherly Model 201 is an American agricultural aircraft manufactured in the late 1960s and 1970s. It is a single engined low winged monoplane.

Development and design
In the early 1960s, the Weatherly Aviation Company of Hollister, California developed a conversion of the Fairchild M-62 as an agricultural aircraft, known as the Weatherly WM-62C, 19 being converted between 1961 and 1965. Based on its experience of the conversion process, Weatherly designed a new, larger agricultural aircraft, the Weatherly Model 201.

This aircraft, which was first certified in 1967, is a low winged monoplane powered by a single Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior radial engine. Its fuselage is constructed of steel tube with Aluminium panel covering, while the wings, which are unswept and have 6 degrees of dihedral are of all metal (aluminium) construction. The pilot is seated in an enclosed cockpit situated above the wing.

More than 100 Model 201s were built by the time production ended in 1979, it being succeeded by the improved Weatherly 620.

Variants

 * Model 201
 * Prototype


 * Model 201A
 * Larger fuel tanks.


 * Model 201B
 * New wing leading edge fillets.


 * Model 201C
 * Minor changes.