Aircraft

Whitehead 1911

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Gustav Whitehead with his daughter Rose

A single place multi-rotor type consisting of an open, tubular framework, carrying two rows of 6′ lifting screws on either side of the central frame.

Probably the vehicle was powered with Whitehead’s own engine, fuelled by acetylene.

Whitehead is claimed to have achieved powered flight with this monoplane at Fairfield, Connecticut on August 14, 1901 – more than two years before the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk. In 1968 the state of Connecticut officially recognized Whitehead as the “Father of Connecticut Aviation”.

In the Fairfield field, Gustave Whitehead, taking control of an aircraft of his own design, a 21-horsepower monoplane-type model with 12 horsepower, managed to fly over no less than 850 meters at an altitude of about 15 meters, in the presence of a few witnesses, including a journalist.

Whitehead / Weisskopf

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Gustav Whitehead, born Gustav Albin Weisskopf, was an aviation pioneer who immigrated from Bavaria, Germany to the United States. Whitehead is claimed to have achieved powered flight with this monoplane at Fairfield, Connecticut on August 14, 1901 – more than two years before the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk. In 1968 the state of Connecticut officially recognized Whitehead as the “Father of Connecticut Aviation”.

Gustave Whitehead (Gustav Weisskopf)
Bridgeport CT.
USA

Airplane builder circa 1901-11 of some two dozen Whitehead designs.

White Aircraft PT-7

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The 1939 White Aircraft PT-7 two place open cockpit biplane was a planned primary trainer for CPTP with acquisition of rights to the 1930 Verville AT, but production never got under way.

The “PT” was White’s designation, not the military’s (actual PT-7 was a Mohawk product).

Engine: Warner Super Scarab, 200 hp
Wingspan: 31′ 0″
Length: 24′ 3″
Seats: 2

White Aircraft D-25B

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The 1940 White Aircraft D-25B (108 2-557) was New Standard D-25 production, bought from Jones Co, and repowered with a 285hp Wright J-6 for use as a crop duster.

Five were built, of which two were destroyed in a 1940 hangar fire at Monroeville AL, NR25317 and NR25318, and two went to the Dept of Agriculture in 1941 (NR25319, NR25320). The fifth, actually a D-25A airframe, was delivered to White Co in 1942 as NR25313.

White Aircraft Co / White Aircraft Corp

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Donald G. White of Buffalo, New York, formed White Aircraft Co in 1937 at Woodward Airport, Leroy NY. In 1938 the inventory of Jones Aircraft Co was acquired, acquisition of Argonaut Inc followed in 1939. Purchased the rights to Verville AT.

In 1940 became the White Aircraft Corp, Palmer MA, and in 1942 converted to wartime troop glider component production and ended aircraft operations after WW2.