Serving Midwest Aviation Since 1960
Serving Midwest Aviation Since 1960
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Loening OA-1A Grover C. Loening, a 1911 graduate of Columbia University, worked with Orville Wright and the Army Signal Corps before forming Loening Aeronautical Engineering in 1917. He was the first to have a degree in Aeronautical Engineering. First appearing in 1923 as the COA-1, his OA-1 observation amphibian was powered by a 425 hp Liberty. The Army ordered 45 between 1924 and 1928, primarily for use in Hawaii and the Philippines. Fifteen were OA-1A models costing $21,000 each. The landing...
Former RAF Flight Lieutenant Nicholas Comper formed the Comper Aircraft Company at Hooten Park in 1929 to build the Swift. Its prototype, G-AARX, first flew on 16 April 1930, powered by a 35 hp ABC Scorpion engine. Forty-one Swifts were manufactured and powered by Salmson and Pobjoy radials and de Havilland Gipsy III inlines. With an empty weight of just over 500 pounds and wing span of 24 feet, the Swift proved a natural for air racing. Even the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, owned...
Wyoming rancher Reuel T. Call and his brothers Ivan and Spencer developed their Call-Air series of light fixed gear wood, steel tube and fabric low-wing strut braced monoplanes for high altitude operations from rough fields. The Model A was ready for production in 1940, but due to the war in Europe, production had to wait until after November 1944 when prohibitions against manufacture of civilian aircraft were lifted. The Call-Air A series was manufactured under Approved Type Certificate #758...
