Post # 2 on Saunders Aircraft.
An ON AIR Limited ST-27 C-FCAT catches fire on the Dryden Airport apron, Sharing these Facebook images and the story from Ray Fread in Dryden, ON.
Ray Fread, a retired bush pilot and AME has written a terrific book: "From Pickle Lake to Paradise" see this review Pickle Lake to Paradise book review.
In Ray Fread;s words: " 1977, I show up for work in the Dryden Airport Weather office and see this on the tarmac. This ST-27 had a failed fuel pump. The owner Fritz Meier and his engineer Marty Doyle showed up to change it. Airports closed, it's dark and cold, they are working with a little generator to run a trouble light. Fuel on the tarmac from pulling the pump. As they walk away, wearing heavy boots and parkas, one of them kicks the cord and breaks the trouble light bulb...KABOOM!!!!!! Parts of this plane landed on the runway, hundreds of feet away "Got so hot the weight of the engine twisted the spar."
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