{"id":1919,"date":"2014-09-16T21:18:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T21:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2014-09-16T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T21:30:13","slug":"cliff-riedels-stinson-tri-motor-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2014\/09\/16\/cliff-riedels-stinson-tri-motor-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Riedel’s Stinson Tri-Motor Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"

For about three years in the late 1960s friends Cliff Riedel and Chet Lanzo worked on building a Stinson Tri-Motor RC model. The completed model was shown at Toledo for several years before being donated to the National Model Aviation Museum in 1986.<\/p>\n

Last Friday, Cliff Riedel reunited with the model. Like any good reunion, memories were shared and lots of photographs were taken. It was great learning about Chet\u2019s phone calls, the curtains that originally appeared in the cabin\u2019s windows, and how the model used to hang from the vaulted ceiling in the Reidel house \u2013 and how nothing took its place once the model was donated in the museum.<\/p>\n

The museum is looking forward to Cliff\u2019s promised History Project biography<\/a> and written memories regarding the model. Once we have more details, we\u2019ll be sure to share!<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
Cliff Riedel and Chet Lanzo’s Stinson Tri-Motor is a little dusty after several years in storage, but otherwise in excellent shape.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A close up of the cabin windows on the Stinson Tri-Motor. Originally there were curtains in the windows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Museum<\/a>
Museum Collections Manager Maria VanVreede and Cliff Riedel discuss the Stinson Tri-Motor that Cliff donated to the museum in 1986.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cliff<\/a>
Cliff Riedel poses in the museum gallery with the Stinson Tri-Motor he built with Chet Lanzo in the late 1960s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
Standing next to his son Cliff, Cliff Riedel holds the Stinson Tri-Motor he built with Chet Lanzo. They are posed beneath a replica of Chet’s 1937 RC model.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thank you to Cliff Riedel for donating the model and sharing his memories.\u00a0 His son Cliff is also owed thanks for arranging the visit & sharing his memories.\u00a0 A special thanks go to Cliff’s son-in-law Sam Cheraso for taking and sharing the photographs.<\/p>\n

Visit the museum’s website for more information on the National Model Aviation Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo credit, all photos: National Model Aviation Museum Permanent Collection, Accession file of the Stinson Tri-Motor, donated by Cliff Riedel and Chet Lanzo, 1986.34.\u00a0 Photos shared courtesy of Sam Cheraso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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