From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Davis Aircraft Corporation, Richmond, Indiana
• President and General Manager: Walter C. Davis. Vice-president H. G. Davis.
Two-place open or closed high-wing monoplane. Warner Scarab engine, 125 horsepower. Approval 2-394.
Span 30 feet 4 inches. Length overall 20 feet. Height overall 7 feet 3 inches. Wing area 144 square feet. Power loading 11.5 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 10 pounds per square foot.
Empty weight 904 pounds. Useful load 557 pounds. Payload 184 pounds. Gross weight 1461 pounds. Fuel capacity 30 gallons. Oil capacity 3 gallons.
Maximum speed at 2250 revolutions per minute 142 miles per hour. Cruising speed at 1900 revolutions per minute 123 miles per hour. Landing speed 46 miles per hour. Service ceiling 19,000 feet. Rate of climb 1270 feet per minute. Cruising range 480 miles.
Fuselage: fabric covered; welded SAE 1025 steel tubing; tandem seating arrangement, dual controls; sliding cockpit enclosure with a triangular door providing access to the front cockpit; detachable steel tube engine mount. Wing: fabric covered; spars spruce; ribs dural of rounded channel section; center section carried above wing on steel tube struts; outer sections braced to bottom fuselage longerons by streamlined Vee struts; Gottingen 387 wing section at center, Clark Y at root and tip; unbalanced ailerons hinged to false spars. Tail group: fabric covered; welded steel tube; adjustable stabilizer. Fixed divided type landing gear equipped with 6.50 X 10 tires, Aircraft Products wheels, brakes and shock absorbers; consists of two steel tube oleo legs, the top ends of which are anchored to the top fuselage longerons. Plain engine and plane control bearings.
Standard equipment includes Hamilton Standard metal propeller, wheel pants, bulge type NACA cowl, navigation lights.
Instruments: tachometer, air speed indicator, altimeter, oil temperature gauge, oil pressure gauge, compass.