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Pajarito Parrakeet Reproduction S/N 1986 N200ES & N567PS

N-number - N567PS
Aircraft Serial Number - 1986
Aircraft Manufacturer - SWEAT ED
Model - PAJARITO
Engine Manufacturer - CONT MOTOR
Model - 0-200 SERIES
Aircraft Year - 1986
Owner Name - SLAY PHILIP
Owner Address - 6304 SELF RD
BELCHER, LA, 71004
Type of Owner - Individual
Registration Date - 18-Dec-2002
Airworthiness Certificate - Experimental
Approved Operations - To show compliance with FAR

Above - N200ES Bronze Lindy Award Airventure 2003. Photo frowww.AirVenture.org

At some time after Doug Rhinehart's death in 1978, Ed Sweat a Farmington educator and airport buddy of Doug's, purchased the Rose Parrakeet S/N 106 airframe, which had been used to develop Rhinehart-Rose Mfg. fixtures, the incomplete Rhinehart-Rose S/N 511 airframe as well as some of those fixtures from Doug's widow, Dimecia Rhinehart Dostaler.

He may have also have acquired drawings used by Doug Rhinehart in the A-4C production. He intended to restore Rose S/N 106 as well as complete Rhinehart Rose S/N 511.

In 1986, he completed construction of S/N511 and registered it as "Experimental" S/N 1986 N200ES. He later sold tracings he made from Doug's drawings to other home builders as the Ed Sweat "Pajarito". In 1992, he sold the Rose S/N 106 airframe to Larry DeCamp who is nearing completion of NC14866's restoration to original 1936 configuration.

Ed Sweat & "Pajarito" Plans

( Ed Sweat account from Dan Rhinehart 10 May 2006)

I remember Ed Sweat from around the airport when I was a kid (late 70's). Ed was a grammar school principal in Farmington at that time. To the best of my recollection he bought an Ercoupe and learned to fly in it at the Aztec airport at this time. As I remember Ed would hang out around the airport but I don't remember him working for my dad in any capacity. Ed bought one of the two parrakeets that were partially built when my dad died and finished it as N200ES.

Now comes the interesting part.............How Ed got involved in parrakeet replica business. I've seen the Ed Sweat "Pajarito" plans and they are nothing more than "Hannaford Bee" plans which seem to be nothing more than pirated Rose Aeroplane and Motor Company drawings. So in a nutshell Ed just changed the headers on the "Hannaford" drawings and started selling plans.

. . . I had heard that he got tired with playing with airplanes and went on to several other hobbies and kind of vanashed from Farmington. As I remember he was from Oklahoma.