[John Beaman]

I will echo what Veltro says: there was no special purpose for the G-5/AS except to provide airframes for conversion to the AS engine as was done with the G-6. The G-5 production had been terminated as there was no longer a need/call for the pressurized cabine, per se. There were airframes around. Many of them were converted by Erla-Antwerp. The use of the G-5 airframe would not disrupt the on-going G-6 production.