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This list of racing aircraft covers aircraft which have been designed or significantly modified to ... M., D., (full name not provided) Le challenge de tourism ...
44-72936 – to airworthiness by private owner in Encino, California. [275] 44-72990 (unnamed) – in storage at US Army Aviation Museum at Fort Novosel, Alabama. [citation needed] 44-73081 – in storage by private owner in Hayward, California. [276] 44-73163 – to airworthiness by private owner in Hot Springs, North Carolina. [277]
Pages in category "Racing aircraft" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. * List of racing aircraft; A. Aero A.18; Albatros L 100; Ambrosini S.7; AMSOIL Racer;
Union Aircraft Company was an American aircraft manufacturer specializing in race aircraft. [1] California based aircraft designer Keith Rider had developed aircraft since 1916, and specialty aircraft for the National Air Races in the early 1930s. [2] Starting his career as a draftsman for the Glen L. Martin Company. His five early racing ...
The aircraft was known by many names. Initially the RT-14 for "Roscoe-Turner 14 cylinder". [5] The air commerce bureau labeled it the Model No. LTR-14, Serial No. 11, Type 1 POLM. [6] The first sponsor was the Ring-Free Oil company, naming the aircraft the Ring-Free Meteor. [7]
In 1980, the aircraft was sold to William A. Speer, of La Mesa, California, who restored it. In 1988, it made its first restored flight. It first raced as #45, then as #55 using the name Pegasus. The plane was sold at auction in December 1994. [4] Bob Button of Button Transportation Inc., Wellington, Nevada, owned the plane from 1995 to 1998.
The Crosby CR-4 is the follow-on of the Menasco C6S-4 powered Crosby CR-3 (a.k.a. C6R-3) designed to be powered by a twelve-cylinder Ranger V-770 engine [1] The aircraft was designed while Crosby was recovering with a broken back and fractured skull from the 1936 crash of his all metal CR-3. Despite a prior failure causing a crash, money ...
The Williams Aircraft Design Company was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Northridge, California and run by Art Williams. The company specialized in the design of racing aircraft. [1] Several of Williams products were the result of collaboration with other designers.