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The Grumman American AA-5 series is a family of American all-metal, four-seat, light aircraft used for touring and training. The line includes the original American Aviation AA-5 Traveler, the Grumman American AA-5 Traveler, AA-5A Cheetah, and AA-5B Tiger, the Gulfstream American AA-5A Cheetah and AA-5B Tiger, the American General AG-5B Tiger ...
The Type R "Mystery Ships" were a series of wire-braced, low-wing racing airplanes built by the Travel Air company in the late 1920s and early 1930s. They were so called because the first two aircraft of the series (R614K, R613K, together with Model B-11-D R612K) were built entirely in secrecy. In total, five Type Rs were built and flown by ...
The name of the school was changed to Tennessee Military Institute in 1909. It was known by this name for most of its life. Due to the "TMI" acronym, it was often jokingly referred to as "Ten Million Idiots" by locals and students alike. 1909 was also when the school moved to its final campus, which eventually consisted of thirteen buildings mostly contained in a single quadrangle surrounding ...
Despite this, only eleven Model 10-Bs were built, [3] and production was ended after Travel Air was purchased by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. [2] Curtiss-Wright built a four-seat aircraft of similar layout in 1931, designed by the ex-Travel Air engineer Walter Burnham, the Curtiss-Wright CW-15, but this too sold poorly, with only 15 CW-15s ...
35°51′36″N 83°32′06″W / 35.860°N 83.535°W / 35.860; -83.535. Type. Aviation museum. Founder. R. Neal Melton. Bob Minter. Website. www.tnairmuseum.com. The Tennessee Museum of Aviation is an aviation museum located at the Gatlinburg–Pigeon Forge Airport in Sevierville, Tennessee.
Aeronca 7AC Champion on skis Champion 7FC Tri-Traveller at the Canadian Museum of Flight. The Aeronca Model 7 Champion, commonly known as the "Champ", or "Airknocker", [3] [5] [7] [8] is a single-engine light airplane with a high wing, generally configured with fixed conventional landing gear and tandem seating for two occupants.
Although it was initially approved for construction in 1944 as a 71-mile-long route, the first part to be completed was the westernmost section (17 miles of pavement between Walland and Chilhowee ...
March 18, 2004. The Airplane Service Station, also known as the Powell Airplane, is a service station built in 1930 in the shape of an airplane. [2] Located at 6829 Clinton Highway in Powell, an unincorporated community in Knox County, Tennessee, it is on the National Register of Historic Places. The station was built by brothers Elmer and ...