Category Archives: 1930s

SIKORSKY S-42

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Bridgeport, Connecticut Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935: • Thirty-seven place high-wing seaplane. ATC 544. Four P. & W. S5D-1G Hornet engines, 700 horsepower each. Span 114 feet 2 inches. Length overall 67 feet 8 inches. Height overall 17 feet 4 inches. Wing area 1330 square feet. Power loading 13.57 pounds per [...]

SIKORSKY S-40

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Bridgeport, Connecticut Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935: • President: Fred W. Neilson. Vice-president in charge of engineering: Igor I. Sikorsky. Forty-five place high-wing seaplane. A TC 454. Four P. & W. Hornet engines, 575 horsepower each. Span 114 feet. Length overall 76 feet 8 inches. Height overall 23 feet 10 inches. [...]

SEVERSKY Model SEV-3M

Seversky Aircraft Corporation, Farmingdale, New York Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935: • President: Alexander P. de Seversky. Vice-president: R. G. Ervin. Chief Engineer: A. Kartveli. Export representative: Miranda Bros., 6 E. 45th Street, New York, N. Y. Two- or three-place open amphibion. Wright Whirlwind engine, 420 horsepower. Span 36 feet. Length overall 26 feet [...]

SECURITY Airster Model S-1A

Security National Aircraft Corporation, Van Nuys, California Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935: • President and General Manager: W. B. Kinner. Vice-president: A. C. Essig. Sales Manager: Hugh H. Green. Chief Engineer: Max B. Harlow. Two-place open low-wing monoplane. Security S-5 engine, 120 horsepower. ATC 521. Span 40 feet. Length overall 23 feet 11 inches. [...]

RYAN Model S-T

Ryan Aeronautical Company, San Diego, California Specifications from Aero Digest, April, 1935: • President and General Manager: T. Claude Ryan. Vice-president and Sales Manager: Earl D. Prudden. Chief Engineer: William Vandermeer. Two-place open low-wing monoplane. Menasco B-4 engine, 95 horsepower. ATC 541. Span 29 feet 11 inches. Length overall 21 feet 8 inches. Height overall [...]

ROSE Parrakeet Model A-1

Originally designed by Jack Rose in 1929, the Rose Parrakeet (yes, that is the accurate spelling for the aircraft) is a single place small bi-plane, with a distinctive elliptical profile. It uses a classic wood truss rib, spruce spar wing construction with a fabric covered steel tube fuselage and tail surfaces. It was first certified [...]

REARWIN Speedster Model 6000

From Aero Digest, April, 1935: Rearwin Airplanes, Incorporated, Fairfax Airport, Kansas City, Kansas • President and General Manager: R. A. Rearwin. Vice-president: Albert R. Jones. Sales Manager: George M. Prescott. Chief Engineer: William Henry Weeks. Two-place high-wing monoplane, American Cirrus Hi-drive inverted engine, 95 horsepower or Menasco. Span 32 feet. Length overall 21 feet 6 [...]

WILEY POST Model A

From Aero Digest, April, 1935: Wiley Post Aircraft Corporation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • President: Wiley Post. Vice-president: Mark Kleeden. Secretary and Treasurer: Thomas J. Ruddy. General Manager: J. H. Burke. Chief Engineer: Evert Stong. Two-place open biplane. Straughan AL-1000 (Ford Model 1A) engine, 40 horsepower. A TC 561. Span upper wing 28 feet 6 inches, [...]

PORTERFIELD Flyabout

Two-place high-wing monoplane. LeBlond engine, 70 horsepower. Advertisement and schematic from Aero Digest, April, 1935: Porterfield Aircraft Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri • President and General Manager: E. E. Porterfield, Jr. Vice-president: M. S. Porterfield. Designer and Production Manager: N. R. Hockaday. Chief Engineer: Hugh L. Thompson. Span 32 feet. Length overall 20 feet. Height overall [...]

Pitcairn Model PA-33

From Aero Digest, April, 1935: Pitcairn Autogiro Company, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania • President: Harold F. Pitcairn. Vice- president: James G. Ray. Chief Engineer Agnew E. Larsen. TW0-place open direct control autogiro. Wright Whirlwind R-975E engine, 420 horsepower at 2150 revolutions per minute. Diameter of rotor 46 feet 2 inches. Length overall 21 feet 10 inches. [...]