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The Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum is a transportation museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Western Reserve Historical Society's Cleveland History Center in University Circle, and its collection includes about 170 cars. It was founded by Frederick C. Crawford of TRW, and opened in 1965
With the onset of the great depression, the Great Lakes Aircraft Company went out of business closing their doors in 1936. The company built just 264 of the Sport Trainers ordered. [4] The remaining stock of aircraft parts, as well as a complete set of drawings, were purchased at a bankruptcy sale by Charles E. Smith of Willoughby, Ohio. [5]
The K-class blimp was a class of blimps (non-rigid airship) built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio, for the United States Navy.These blimps were powered by two Pratt & Whitney Wasp nine-cylinder radial air-cooled engines, each mounted on twin-strut outriggers, one per side of the control car that hung under the envelope.
Backed by the financial and political support of the prominent Taft family and future Ohio senator Robert A. Taft who was one of the firm's directors, Aeronca became the first American company to build a commercially successful general aviation aircraft. [5] The corporation changed its name to Aeronca Aircraft Corporation in 1941. [6]
Single engine biplane reconnaissance airplane Dayton-Wright OW.1 Aerial Coupe: 1919: 1: Single engine biplane touring airplane Dayton-Wright RB-1 Racer: 1920: 1: Single engine monoplane racer Dayton-Wright FP.2: 1921: 1: Twin engine biplane observation airplane Dayton-Wright KT Cabin Cruiser: 1921: 4: Single engine biplane touring airplane ...
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The museum received two airplanes, two land vehicles and other objects on loan from the Ohio Historical Society in 2009. [4] A theater made from a replica CG-4A glider was completed in 2015. [5] The museum broke ground on a new Learning Center in September 2017. [6] The museum acquired the prototype RPT in 2018. [7]
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