Two-hundred Fairchild F-24’s rolled off Texas Engineering and Manufacturing Company’s (TEMCO) production line in a production program that began in 1946.  The Fairchild Company furnished the engineering drawings and TEMCO, in turn, built the complete airplane including the detail parts.  The F-24 was a three-place, commercial high-wing monoplane.  Fairchild took delivery of the airplanes from the TEMCO plant, and flew them to their sales destinations from the adjoining U.S. Naval Air Station, Dallas, runway.