Manufacturer: Fairchild (United States)
Type: Civil utility aircraft
First flight: 14 June 1926

In aviation's youth, instrument panels and controls were models of simplicity - at least compared with those of modern aircraft. The cockpit illustrated is a Fairchild FC-2W2 from 1928. Photograph published in Winds of Change, 75th Anniversary NASA publication (page 26), by James Schultz.

Fairchild FC-2W2