The Thirties
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 horsepower. [...]
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. Wing [...]
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 4 [...]
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. Height [...]
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 6 [...]
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 [...]
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 inches. [...]
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, span [...]
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 6 feet 7 inches. [...]
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. Height overall 11 [...]
