Circa 1929
53 W Jackson Blvd
Chicago IL.
USA
Formed at Chicago, Illinois, to build a three-seat biplane powered by a 90 hp Curtiss OX-5 engine.
Aircraft
Western Aircraft Sport
The 1930 Western Aircraft Corp Sport single place open cockpit monoplane was registered N216Y c/n 1 in mid-1930, powered with a Szekely.
The company vanished shortly after licensing this plane, apparently swallowed up by the Depression, and fate of the plane is unknown as its reg was cancelled in 1932.
Western Aircraft Corp [2]
521 Cooper Bldg
Denver CO.
USA
Circa 1930 airplane builder
Western Aircraft Co West Air 204 / 214
In 1984 Western Aircraft Company was manufacturing the newly designed West Air 214. The craft follows the successful flight testing and evaluation of the proof of concept aircraft, the West Air 204 N258, first flown in November 1982. The West Air 214’s changes include a bubble windshield, swept vertical stabilizer, additional wing area and a redesigned fuselage. The 214 will have a tri-cycle retractable gear. The West Air will still retain its all composite construction of epoxy, graphite and tri-directional glass and four place seating.
Engine: Lycoming IO-360 200-hp.
Wingspan: 31 feet
Length: 26.75 feet
Gross weight: 2690 lb
Empty weight: 1410 lb
Fuel capacity: 70 USgallons
Top speed: 245 mph
Cruise speed: 215 mph
Stall speed: 59 mph
Seats: 4
Engine: Lycoming TIO-360-A1B
Wingspan: 29’0″
Length: 23’8″
Useful load 1166 lb
Max speed: 240 mph
Cruise speed: 180 mph
Western Aircraft Co
1984: George Hamilton, Western Aircraft Company. 16410 Crester Butte, San Antonio. Texas 78247, USA.
West Coast Air Service 1928 Monopane
In 1928 West Coast Air Service Inc of Portland OR., USA, built a three place cabin monoplane.
Westbrook W-5 / W-5-B Sportster
Designed by Neil Perdew, the 1931 Westbrook W-5 (ATC 2-444) was powered by a 90hp ACE Cirrus Mk III engine. The ATC were issued in 1933.
The W-5-B Sportster had an 85hp British Cirrus (2-455). Folding all-wood wings and selling for $2,650.
About five were built, and several partly constructed before the business failed in 1931.
NC9N c/n 501 destroyed in a 1931 crash
N853W c/n 502
NC966V c/n 503 lost in a 1938 accident
NC92V c/n 504
possibly c/n 505 unlicensed one
The design was planned for revival in 1939 as the Allied H-28 Sport Trainer, but apparently no planes were built.
W-5
Engine: 90hp ACE Cirrus Mk III
Wingspan: 32’0″
Length: 23’6″
Useful load: 500 lb
Max speed: 125 mph
Cruise speed: 100 mph
Stall: 40 mph
Range: 400 mi
Seats: 2
W-5-B Sportster
Engine: 85hp British Cirrus
Seats: 2
Westbrook Aeronautical Corp
1929: Founders: John Knox McAfee, Neil Westbrook Perdew
Teterboro, NJ
USA
c.1931: 142 W 24 St, New York City
West Australian Airways Ltd
Australia
West Australian Airways Ltd was formed at Perth in 1921 to operate Geraldton-Derby airline and licensed to build the de Havilland D.H.50 in Australia. Produced first aircraft in 1926.
WAACO Staggerbipe
Reverse Stagger winged biplane, single seater, VW powered, 145 kg empty, stressed to +9, — 6 G’s. For possible restricted aerobatics. Three axis controls via full span ailerons, large rudder and elevator. Taildrag¬ger configuration. Fully enclosed cockpit can be made semi-open by removing both doors. Fuselage is constructed with square hollow aluminium tubing, riveted, epoxied, and co¬vered with ceconite. A 2 stroke engine option is available.
Max Kremke displayed the Staggerbipe, unfinished at Mangalore in 1984. Max originally had it on a composite landing gear spring that proved too soft and it was after that he substituted the CRMO gear legs.
It was finished and painted, blue with red and white accents, but possibly never flown but it appeared capable of flight. It had instruments fitted.
Circa 2018 LAME Brian Creek picked it up because of an interest in early aero engines. Installed was a Continental A40 engine, and the cowls suited the A40 – no sign of a VW installed ever. He did discover that the aircraft was first registered in 3/04/1988 and de-registered 22/04/2009. It appears to have never flown.
Engine: VW 1300, 42 hp
Prop: 135cm x 84cm pitch
Wingspan: 6.1m top, 5.5 m lower
Length: 4.4m
Fuel capacity: 31 lt
Weight: 150 kg
Cruise speed: 65-70 kt
Stall: 28 kt
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