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Built by Thomas-Morse Aircraft in Ithaca, New York in 1917, it was a compact single-seat open-cockpit biplane of equal span and a 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome rotary engine. [3]The S-4 was designed by Englishman Benjamin Douglas Thomas (no relation to the company owners), [4] formerly with the Sopwith Aviation Company, [5] who also assisted with the design of the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny. [6]
Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 347. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1977-78. London: Jane's Yearbooks. pp. 536– 37. AirVenture Museum page on type; airVenture Museum specification page for Biplane with 85 hp engine and open cockpit; List of magazine articles about the EAA Biplane Archived 2015-05-03 at the ...
The organization acquired four O-2s from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in 1996. [1]The organization received approval to build a 12,000 sq ft (1,100 m 2) facility from the airport authority in May 2013.
In 1951, Roosevelt Field closed and plans were laid for a shopping center to be built on the site, so the World War I aircraft were put up for sale. The Smithsonian had already acquired three of the aircraft so Cole quickly bid his life savings of, according to his friends, around $1,500 (equivalent to $17,600 in 2023) for the remainder.
The Aeronca Museum is an online museum that hosts a collection of artifacts and aircraft produced by Aeronca (the Aeronautical Corporation of America) (a.k.a. Aeronca, Inc. or Aeronca Aircraft, now Magellan Aerospace Corp.), a prominent U.S. light aircraft manufacturer from 1928 to 1951. The museum is instituted to "preserve the knowledge and ...
The Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, located at Creve Coeur Airport in Maryland Heights, Missouri, United States, is dedicated to restoring and preserving historical aircraft. The airplanes in the collection are all fabric-covered, and most are biplanes from the inter-war years (the "Golden age of flight"). [1] The museum's volunteers ...
The Travel Air 2000 is an open-cockpit biplane aircraft produced in the United States in the late 1920s by the Travel Air Manufacturing Company.During the period from 1924–1929, Travel Air produced more aircraft than any other American manufacturer, including over 1,000 biplanes.
The aircraft owned by Vintage Wings are: [8] As of February 2023, Vintage Wings of Canada has three aircraft registered with Transport Canada and operate as ICAO airline designator GHK, and telephony GOLDEN HAWK.B [9] [10] List of aircraft operated in July 2022: de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk – two, one of which is registered with ...