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Frakes In Fifth Decade Of Serving Bizav
Frakes Aviation, now in its fifth decade, manufactures exhaust stacks for modification companies and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), but there is

Frakes Aviation, now in its fifth decade, manufactures exhaust stacks for modification companies and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), but there is a lot more to the company’s history than just exhaust stacks.

Founded by Fred Frakes in 1967 and located in Cleburne, Texas, near Fort Worth, the company’s original main activity through the mid-1980s was converting piston-engine airplanes to turbine power. Its most significant projects were re-engining of the Grumman Ag-Cat and Mallard, in both cases replacing the original radial engines with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprops.

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