Riley Aircraft Corp.'s D-16 Riley Twin Production

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Serial Number TN-8
July 27, 1953 - manufactured
  • Used the airframe from Navion NAV-4-571 (NC8601H).

N8601H

December 1952 - February 1953
Riley Aircraft Sales Company
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

February 1953 - April 1953
Claude Wilson, Jr.
Dayton, OH, USA
  • July 27, 1953 - Conversion to a Riley D-16 Twin Navion is complete.

April 1953 - March 1954
Chamberlain Aviation, Inc.
Akron, OH, USA

March 1954 - July 1958
J. Curtis McKinney
Titusville, PA, USA
  • October 28, 1955 - 140 hp Lycoming O-290-D2 engines removed and replaced with 150 hp Lycoming O-320 engines. Gross weight increased, heater and aft baggage compartment door also installed.

July 1958 - January 1960
Louis McKinney, II
Titusville, PA, USA

January 1960 - January 1966
Clarence Will
Pontiac, MI, USA

January 1966 - June 1966
Dennis Sherman, d/b/a, Sherman Aircraft Sales
Fort Wayne, IN, USA

June 1966 - March 1972
Cliff Hall, Inc.
Rensselaer, IN, USA

March 1972 - July 1973
Sam Sorber and Fred Walker
Stoystown and Berlin, PA, USA

July 1973 - March 1974
Burton Strobel and Helen Strobel
West Chester, PA, USA

March 1974 - February 1975
Michael DiIoia
Landsdown, PA, USA

February 1975 - October 1976
George Mostupanick
Suffolk, NY, USA
  • October 22, 1976 - The FAA revokes N8601H from the civil registry.


Current status: Undetermined