REARWIN Speedster Model 6000


1935 advertisement for Rearwin Speedster
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 inches. Height overall 6 feet 6 inches. Wing area 145 square feet. Power loading 16.9 pounds per horsepower. Wing loading 11.05 pounds per square foot.

Empty weight 992 pounds. Useful load 613 pounds. Payload 220 pounds. Gross weight 1905 pounds. Fuel capacity 34 gallons. Oil capacity 2.5 gallons.

Maximum speed 144 miles per hour. Cruising speed 120 miles per hour. Landing speed 39 miles per hour. Rate of climb 800 feet per minute. Cruising range 600 miles.

Fuselage: welded steel tube chrome molybdenum structure, fabric covered; tandem seating arrangement, dual controls; baggage compartment below and behind rear seat. Wing.: wood construction, fabric covered; two laminated spruce spars and girder-type spruce ribs; braced to bottom fuselage longerons by Vee struts; rectangular shaped, with elliptical tips and “gulled” at roots. Tail group: framework of steel tubing, fabric covered; wire braced adjustable stabilizer. Fixed cantilever type landing gear equipped with 7.00 X 5 Autofan or Bendix wheels and brakes, Rusco ring shock absorbers and streamline pants. Steerable tail wheel with 8 X 3.25 Goodyear streamlined tire.

Standard equipment includes Hamilton Standard variable-pitch propeller, navigation lights, control panel lights. Exide battery optional.

Instruments: airspeed indicator, compass, tachometer, altimeter, oil pressure gauge, oil temperature gauge. Also see data in March, 1935, AERO DIGEST.