The Comper Streak was a single-engined, single-seat racing monoplane built in the UK in the mid-1930s. It was not successful as a racer and only one was produced.
Comper Streak
Aircraft
Comper Kite
The Comper Kite was a single-engine, two-seat touring monoplane built in the UK, derived from the contemporary Comper Streak racer. Only one was built.
Comper Mouse
The Comper Mouse was a 1930s British three-seat cabin monoplane designed by Nicholas Comper, and built by the Comper Aircraft Company at Heston Aerodrome in 1933.
Only one Mouse was built; G-ACIX.
Comper CLA.7 Swift
The company’s first product was the C.L.A. 7 Swift, a single-seat high-wing sporting aircraft, which was first flown in spring 1930 and built between 1930 and 1934 (one was owned by the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII).
Teething problems necessitated fitting early production Swifts with the Salmson A.D.9 radial, the prototype having flown with a 40 hp ABC Scorpion.
Production commenced in 1930, thirty-seven Swifts being built. The majority powered by the 75 hp Pobjoy R, but three were fitted with 120 hp DH Gipsy III.
Engine: Pobjoy R, 75 hp
Wingspan: 24 ft
Length: 17 ft 8.5 in
Height: 5 ft 3.5 in
Empty wight: 540 lb
Loaded weight: 985 lb
Max speed: 140 mph
Cruise: 120 mph
ROC: 1400 fpm
Service ceiling: 22,000 ft
Range: 600 mi
Comper Aircraft Co Ltd
The company was formed at Hooton Park, Cheshire, on March 14,1929 by Fit. Lt. Nicholas Comper and others. Formerly with Airco, Comper had also been responsible for the Cranwell Light Aeroplane Club series of amateur built lightplanes, the C.L.A. 2, 3, and 4A. The company’s first product was the C.L.A. 7 Swift, a single-seat high-wing sporting aircraft, which was first flown in spring 1930 and built between 1930 and 1934 (one was owned by the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII). The company moved to Heston, Middlesex, in 1933; the one-off three-seat Mouse and single-seat Streak monoplanes were built in that year, followed by a single Kite two-seat tourer developed from the Streak.
When the company folded in March 1934, Heston Aircraft Company Ltd was formed from its assets.
Compañia Universal de Navegación Aérea Multíptero / Flugilarillo
Part of a central section of the “Multíptero” or “Flugilarillo” of the Catalonian inventor Cristóbal Juandó y Rafecas, dated circa 1901/1902
Commuter Aircraft Corp CAC-100
A 60-seat four-turboprop CAC-100 airliner.
Commuter Aircraft Corp
USA
Founded to develop 60-seat four-turboprop CAC-100 airliner.
Commonwealth Aircraft Inc
USA
Formed in Kansas City October 1942, after the acquisition of Rearwin Aircraft & Engines Inc. by New York interests. In 1943 it received substantial orders for Waco CG-3A and -4A troop-carrying gliders for the USAAF. It obtained manufacturing rights in 1945 for the Trimmer three-seat twin-engined light amphibian (prototype only), formerly built by Allied Aviation. In 1946 Commonwealth Aircraft Inc. began producing Model 185, a development of the prewar Rearwin Model 175. Early that year the company took over the Columbia Aircraft Corporation, all manufacturing being transferred to the letter’s Valley Stream factory. In March 1946 it acquired a non-aircraft company at Port Washington as a manufacturing base for the Trimmer, which did not go into series production. The Skyranger model was built in small numbers in 1946-1948.
As the anticipated post-war boom in civil aviation had not started, Commonwealth went bankrupt in 1947.
Commonwealth Aircraft Corp / CAC CA-28 Ceres
The CA-28 agricultural aircraft was designed around components of the wartime Wirraway. It first flew in the southern summer of 1958. Basically a single-seater, it also had a rear-facing seat behind the pilot for ferrying. There was a 40 cu.ft. hopper forward of the pilot. No hydraulic or electrical systems were fitted. The Ceres did have leading edge slats and manually operated flaps.
Commonwealth Aircraft CA-28 Ceres Article
Fourteen were registered in Australia and five in New Zealand in the early 1960’s.
Engine: Pratt & Whitney R-1340-AN-1, 600 hp.
Wingspan: 14.30 m / 47 ft 11 in
Length: 9.36 m / 31 ft 9 in
Height: 2.74 m / 9 ft 0 in
Wing area: 29.0 sq.m / 312.15 sq ft
Take-off weight: 3048 kg / 6720 lb
Empty weight: 1995 kg / 4398 lb
Cruise speed: 179 km/h / 111 mph
Accommodation: 1-2
