From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
• President and General Manager: Charles F. Barndt. Vice-president and Chief Engineer: P. B. Rogers. Sales Manager: C. L. Johnston.
Two-place open biplane. A TC 228. American Cirrus engine, 100 horsepower.
Span 26 feet 8 inches. Length overall 20 feet 4 inches. Height overall 7 feet 11 inches. Wing area 188 square feet. Power loading 15.8 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 8.43 pounds per square foot.
Empty weight 1016 pounds. Useful load 564 pounds. Payload 223 pounds. Gross weight 1580 pounds. Fuel capacity 26 gallons. Oil capacity 2 gallons.
Maximum speed 110 miles per hour. Cruising speed 90 miles per hour. Landing speed 40 miles per hour. Service ceiling 9000 feet. Rate of climb 600 feet per minute. Cruising range 370 miles.
Fuselage: welded chrome molybdenum steel tubing; fabric covered; tandem seating arrangement; dual controls with forward controls quickly removable. Wings: routed spruce spars; stamped aluminum alloy ribs; tubular compression members; equal span, staggered; upper wing in three panels with sweepback in outer panels; lower wing in two panels; Frise-type ailerons on lower wing; fabric covered; N -type center section and interplane struts. Tail group: aluminum alloy tubular spars; stamped aluminum alloy ribs; fabric covered. Landing gear: split . type, equipped with oleo shock absorbers; 24 X 4 wheels on standard model, 22 X 10 airwheels on deLuxe model; leaf spring tail skid is equipped with a detachable manganese shoe.
Standard equipment of the standard model includes a 6 foot-6 inch wood propeller, altimeter, tachometer, oil pressure gauge, oil temperature gauge, fuel gauges; deLuxe equipment includes 6 foot-6 inch metal propeller, air speed indicator, compass, altimeter, tachometer, oil pressure gauge, oil temperature gauge, and upholstered cockpits.
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