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Don Luscombe built his name at Monocoupe and then founded his own company to build an all-metal lightplane. The two airplanes are the two halves of his career.
Al Mooney drew the Long Wing Eaglerock at about twenty and the Culver Cadet in mid-career. The two airplanes bookend his prewar design work.
Lloyd Stearman designed the early Travel Air biplanes in Wichita with Walter Beech and Clyde Cessna, then left to found Stearman Aircraft. The Travel Air 3000 and B4000 come out of the line he started; the C3MB is his own company's airplane.
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Porterfield designed the Eaglet at American Eagle to save the company after the crash, then started over under his own name. The 35-70 is the comeback.
Victor Roos built the Lincoln-Page PT-W and then merged his company with American Eagle in 1931. The Collection’s Eaglet was built and sold new by the merged American Eagle-Lincoln company.
Ten Wacos, from the 1929 CSO to the 1941 UPF-7s. Inside the group, the F-series is its own thread: the Collection holds all six F-models (RNF, UBF-2, UMF-3, YMF-5, ZPF-6, UPF-7), plus Rob Lock's Jacobs-engined ZPF-7. The YKS-6 is the only Waco cabin airplane in the hangar, and the CSO is the only pre-F Waco.
The Collection holds all six F-models (RNF, UBF-2, UMF-3, YMF-5, ZPF-6, UPF-7), plus Rob Lock’s Jacobs-engined ZPF-7.
Four Fairchilds from Sherman Fairchild's Hagerstown operation, from the Kreider-Reisner biplane through the PT-19 trainer.
Three Travel Airs: the early 3000, the B4000, and the one-of-a-kind B-14-R Speedwing built after Curtiss-Wright absorbed the company.
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The company Lloyd Stearman founded, at both ends: his own mail plane, and the trainer built under the Stearman name after Boeing bought the company.
Travel Air, founded by Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna and Lloyd Stearman, and the Stearman company that came out of it.
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The builders of Nebraska, Kansas City on both sides of the state line, and Missouri.
After 1929 the industry chased an airplane an ordinary person could buy and fly. The core is the Aeronca C-3, Eaglet, Pietenpol, Dormoy, Taylor-Young, NB-8G and Porterfield. The Luscombe 8A and Culver Cadet are the late-1930s answer to the same question.
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Airplanes built for speed, or that won on the race course.
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Wing on struts above the fuselage: the cheap, simple layout of the small builders.
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Primary and secondary trainers of the Civilian Pilot Training Program and the wartime Army program: the Waco F-2 and F-3, every F-7 in the hangar, and the PT-17 and PT-19.
Both airframes flew the CAP coastal anti-submarine patrol of 1942-43, documented on the CAP record. This is exact-airframe history, and no other U.S. collection has two of them.
Both airplanes carried mail or paying passengers, and in both cases it is this airframe's own history.
Eight airplanes carry a Warner, more than any other engine family in the hangar, in four ratings.
Four Jacobs-powered Wacos in three ratings. Waco's letter code names the engine, so the Z and Y in these model names mean Jacobs.
The most common engine in the Collection: five airplanes, four Wacos and the PT-17.
The small Continentals that powered the lightplane boom, from the 40 hp A-40 to the postwar O-200.
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Two airplanes, two rival 1929 builders, the same Wright radial.
Two airplanes on the Lycoming radial: an open mail plane and a cabin airliner.
The two airplanes in the Collection powered by water-cooled V-8s, from the years before air-cooled radials took over.
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An airplane can sit in several lists. See all aircraft, or the engines of the Collection.
