ERCO ERCOUPE AIRPLANE

[beana51]

When Macy’s department store opened its doors one October morning in 1945, its customers were treated to a vision of the future. In the center of a showroom display called “The Flight Deck” sat a gleaming ERCO Ercoupe airplane,for example,a $998 deposit and put the balance on the store’s “Cash-Time” payment plan. $2,994 dollars Then arrangements were made for delivery of the airplane to a nearby airport. <label for="rb_iconid_24">http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/images/icons/icon23.gif</label>

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[ThinkingManNeil]

There's an interesting article in the November 2013 issue of Smithsonian Air & Space (http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/Buy-Your-Plane-at-Penneys-223975311.html) magazine on the history of store-bought Ercoupes. Too bad it wasn't more successful. Would love to see a real world revival of the 'Coupe but done in composites and powered by the indomitable Rotax 912 (and perhaps a touch wider in the cockpit for hefty, middle aged moose like me...)

N.

[Daveroo]

just as an aside,did anyone know that the macys stores were started in northern california?....in marysville ca,,50 miles or so north of sacramento...at the time marysville and even my small town were bigger and better than sac....it kept flooding...macy opened a small store there and as the store was very successful,he closed it and moved to new york..and history was made as they say.

[beana51]

The History Of MACY'S........Interesting....Vin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy%27s

[Daveroo]

hmmm ok....now i dont believe a thing ill ever read in the magazine called.."Sierra Heritage"...going to have to find the back issue that made al these claims...like they said that Stetson was building tents here,and made a water proof tent..someone asked him to make him a waterproof hat...then stetson went to texas where he got famous for the stetson hat...

i do know studebaker started here....everyone thinks it was the wheelbarrows produced in placerville,but we have proof here in a small museum in our fairgrounds that they were making "shovels" on the Foresthill divide,before moving shop to placerville..

one of the "Big Four".....Central Pacific railroad fame...he opened a general store at Michigan Bluff,also on the foresthill divide,again "our" history tells it that he got his tent material from Stetson. one of the first wooden structures ever built on the divide was a "hurty gurty house" in Last Chance on the divide as well,this area where Last Chance is/was..was decimated during the american fire a few months ago...shame i have alot of personal history at last chance...