From Aero Digest, April, 1935:
Mercury Aircraft, Incorporated, Hammondsport, N. Y.
• President and General Manager: J. F. Meade. Vice-president and Chief Engineer: H. C. Mummert.
Two-place open high-wing monoplane. ATC 235. LeBlond engine, 90 horsepower. Span 35 feet 8 inches. Length overall 23 feet. Height overall 8 feet 7 inches. Wing area 192 square feet. Chord 66 inches.
Empty weight 935 pounds. Useful load 578 pounds. Payload 366 pounds. Gross weight 1513 pounds. Fuel capacity 28 gallons. Oil capacity 4 gallons.
Maximum speed 115 miles per hour. Cruising speed 95 miles per hour. Landing speed 40 miles per hour. Service ceiling 18,000 feet. Rate of climb 900 ft./min. Cruising range 375 miles.
Fuselage: welded chrome molybdenum steel tubing, fabric covered; tandem cockpits, with adjustable seats and dual controls. Wing: steel tubing; the wing is in two sections joined on the center line; strut supports are utilized to brace the wings above the fuselage; Vee struts brace the wings to the bottom of the fuselage attaching to the bottom fuselage longerons; spars and ribs are of chrome molybdenum steel tubing; ailerons extend across full width of the wings and are actuated by vertical tubes attached directly to the control stick, eliminating all cables and pulleys from the aileron system; flaps are of steel tubing, covered with fabric.
Tail group: steel tube framework, fabric covered; no fin; the bal¬anced rudder, with the rudder post is braced to the top of the fuselage by two converging steel-tube struts; no stabilizer, but balanced one-piece elevator. Fixed split-type landing gear, consisting of two Vees hinged to the bottom fuselage longerons, and two half-axles, the inner ends of which are anchored to the apex of a steel-tube pyramid below the fuselage by a rubber cord shock absorber; the landing gear is equipped with 28 X 4 tires and Kelsey-Hayes wheels.
Standard equipment includes navigation lights and a Hartzell wood propeller. Instruments: tachometer, altimeter, oil temperature gauge, oil pressure gauge.