This state of the art 50 ft wingspan enclosed cabin monoplane was purchased by Parker in November, 1928.
The "Duofold" was christened at Chicago Municipal Airport (now Midway Airport) by Amelia Earhart, using a bottle of seltzer water as it was Prohibition at the time.
That is Kenneth Parker on the left
The Duofold flew for a few years on Grand Tours to visit every prominent dealer in the country and gave rides to lucky customers.
Pilot LaPerle inlet shaking hands with a few lucky dealers after a ride.
Several years later the Fairchild Duofold was sold to a local airline in FL that had a shuttle between Key Largo and Cuba. Unfortunately the Fairchild crashed into the Gulf and to this day is probably part of a coral reef.
The RAF Spitfire was a commemorative aircraft paid for by employees of Parker UK and Canada. The Spitfire was shot down a few years later and crashed somewhere in Northern France. The remains have never been found.
The Parker 51 P-51 Mustang had nothing to do with the Parker Pen Co. It was flown by a pilot that so loved his Parker 51 fountain pen he actually painted that name on the cowling of his Mustang.
Image of Parker 51 pilot and crew
The model
After the war is was probably decommissioned and I have no record of it's fate.
Other Parker aircraft such as the twin engine Beechcraft "51" was sold after it's useful life and replaced with an A26 war-period twin engine. Shortly after that there were two DC-3s, one called the "51" and the other the "61". In the 1960's all Parker aircraft were sold and the Aviation Dept was closed as commercial airline service was now conveniently developed including service to Janesville.
Interesting niche in my collections of Parker history and I greatly enjoyed making those models.