The XA 7 was an all metal attack aircraft. It appeared in 1930 and was a product of the General Aviation Corporation, as the former Fokker Factories were now named. The Army finally selected the Curtiss XA 8, which had been designed to the same specification.
A ten-passenger single-engine cabin monoplane, which later became known as Clark GA.43. The GA-43 was all-metal and powered by a Wright Cyclone engine.
At least one was operated by Swiss Air Lines.
Twin-engine pusher monoplane flying-boat for USCG
A four-seat development of the F.22 Pinguino.
The F.22 Pinguino two-seat aerobatic lightplane and trainer was built in several versions with retractable or fixed undercarriages (first flown June 1989), and the F.22 Bupp variant with only fixed undercarriage and other changes.
The aircraft is built at Perugia Airport, Italy.
F.22R
Engine: Lycoming O-320-D1A, 160 hp.
Limits: +6 / -3G
In Italy the prototype (I-PROL) of the General Avia/Procaer F15F four seat lightplane was flown for the first time on 20 October 1977.
The General Airplane Service Model 11 is a modified biplane Piper Cub for crop dusting. Created by General Airplane Service of Sheridan, Wyo, it was modified to a reverse-tagger biplane, the plane is fitted with tandem one-wheel landing gear. The fuselage of a J-3 Cub with a Piper PA-18 top cabin structure, wing and tail. Power was a Ranger 200 hp in a Fairchild PT-19 cowling.
The first flight was on October 12,1953.
Engine: Ranger 200 hp
Span: 32 ft 2.5 in
Length: 24 ft
Height: 6 ft 8 in
Empty weight: 1200 lb
Gross weight: 3000 lb
Payload: 1500 lb
Operating speed: 40-100 mph
Three-seat high-wing cabin monoplane
Three seat twin-engine high-wing cabin monoplane
The General Aircraft Corporation was established to build an aircraft designed by Doctor Otto C. Koppen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The aircraft was the G1-80 Skyfarer, a two-seat cabin high-wing braced monoplane with a light alloy basic structure and a mixed steel tube and fabric covering. It had an unusual tail unit, a cantilever tailplane with the elevator mounted on the upper surface of the tail with aluminum endplate fins and no movable rudders. It was powered by a 75 hp (56 kW) Avco Lycoming GO-145-C2 geared air-cooled four-cylinder engine.
The aircraft incorporated aerodynamic control principles covered by patents issued to Fred Weick, an early aeronautical engineer who went on to design and market the Ercoupe. Since it had no rudders (or rudder pedals), it was simpler to fly (it had a single control wheel, which controlled the ailerons and elevator), and was considered spin-proof. The aircraft was certified in 1941 with a placard that stated the aircraft was characteristically incapable of spinning. The company also made a comment to Popular Science in a September 1941 article, with first public photos that an “average” person could learn to fly the Skyfarer …in an hour or so…
It was anticipated that many aircraft would be ordered and built, but the United States became involved in the Second World War and the Skyfarer programme was abandoned after 17 examples had been built. The rights and tooling passed to Grand Rapids Industries in 1943, who built 2 aircraft before stopping production. The company became a manufacturer of the Waco CG-4A troop glider.
L.W. DuVon and Dr. David O. Kime of Western Union College convinced the type holder Grand Rapids Industries, to give the equipment, tools and one of the finished planes to the college in 1944. They then found local investors who formed Mars Corporation in 1945. The aircraft was later licenced as the Mars M1-80 Skycoupe with a 100 hp engine. One example was built and production plans were estimated to be as high as 75 planes in its first year. The glut of aircraft produced after the war left little market for the aircraft. The facility to manufacture the aircraft was sold by 1946.
The aircraft NC29030 resides in the Plymouth County, Iowa Historical Museum.
G1-80 Skyfarer
Engine: 1 × Lycoming GO-145-C2, 75 hp (56 kW)
Wingspan: 31 ft 5 in (9.58 m)
Wing area: 121.3 sq.ft (11.27 sq.m)
Length: 22 ft 0 in (6.71 m)
Height: 8 ft 8 in (2.64 m)
Empty weight: 890 lb (404 kg)
Gross weight: 1350 lb (612 kg)
Maximum speed: 144 mph ( km/h)
Cruise speed: 100 mph (161 km/h)
Range: 350 miles (563 km)
Service ceiling: 10,000 ft (3050 m)
Seats: 1 pilot, 1 passenger, side-by-side
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