(Siegmund) Spier Aircraft Corp
Jersey City, NJ
Brooklyn NY
USA
Martin Spear vice-pres
Bernard Spier secy
Nathan Spier, treas
Built the Spier Pursuit Trainer in 1940.
Aircraft
Spibec
1956: W K Foss, Schenectady NY, and Spibec Corp, Philadelphia PA.
Spibec’s original intent was to experiment with fiberglass in lightplane construction, but poor sales of a fiberglass model introduced by Taylorcraft compelled the company to cancel its plans.
1958: Acquired rights for Luscombe Gullwing.
Spibec’s goal was to incorporate as Colt Aviation & Engr Corp.
1964: Sold rights to Swallow Aircraft Corp, Covina CA.
Spezio DAL-1 Tuholer
The Spezio DAL-1 Tuholer stems from a design by Tony Spezio in the late 1950s and is said to have been based loosely on the Howard Ike racer of the 1930s. As the Tuholer name implies, it is a two-seat, open cockpit, strut-braced, low-wing taildragger. The original was built using parts collected from various surplus and wrecked sources, and with no hangar space the wings were designed to fold. The first flight of the type occurred on 2 May 1961.
Marketed plans for home-builders. Mechanix Illustrated Golden Hammer Award c.1961 for design.
The fuselage and tail structure are welded steel tubing. Its large center section, supporting the folding wing mechanism is fashioned from a trio of one-inch .049 tubing with end plates, fittings and large bolts that allow the wings to fold for storage. The wings are wood with fabric cover.
Engine: Lycoming GO-290-G4, 125 hp
Wingspan: 24’9”
Length: 18’3”
Gross Wt: 1400 lb
Empty Wt: 810 lb
Fuel capacity: 23 USG
Useful load: 590 lb
Top speed 160 mph
Cruise 128 mph
Stall 45 mph
Climb rate 2000 ft
Takeoff run 160 ft
Landing roll 300 ft
Range 400 sm
Ceiling: 12,000 ft
Seats: 2
Spezio
1980:
25 Madison Ave,
Northampton,
MA 01060,
USA.
Tony & Dorothy Spezio
Bethany
OK.
USA
Dorothy Spezio
211 Dennis Drive
Absecon Highlands
New Jersey 08201
LSA builder
Sperry Sportplane
The 1919 Sperry Sportplane was a two-place, open cockpit biplane, powered by two 38hp air-cooled, 2-cycle, 4-cyl Sperry WBB engines. The aircraft was fitted with folding wings.
Engines: 2 Sperry WBB, 38hp
Wingspan: 27’0″
Length: 21’0″
Useful load: 475 lb
Max speed: 88 mph
Stall: 36 mph
Seats: 2
Sperry Hi-Lift
The 1922 Hi-Lift was an experiment by Sperry in modifying a Curtiss JN-4D into a monoplane with an internally-braced, one-piece high-wing with I-beam spars, to produce a craft capable of carrying five, when it was originally designed for two. Despite successful trials and demonstrations, nothing came of the idea.
Engine: 90hp Curtiss OX-5
Wingspan: 36’0″
Length: 26’0″
Useful load: 800 lb
Max speed: 85 mph
Stall: 42 mph
Range: 200 mi
Seats: 5
Sperry Light Bomber
The 1919 Sperry Light Bomber amphibian, possibly A-5243, went to the US Navy. Only the one was built.
Engine: 400hp Liberty 12
Wingspan: 48’0″
Length: 31’6″
Max speed: 90 mph
Cruise: 85 mph
Bombload: 1000 lb
Seats: 3
Sperry Sport
The 1921 Sperry Sport was a two-place, open cockpit, high-wing monoplane. It was a JN-4 fuselage and strut-braced Sperry wing.
Engine: 110hp Curtiss OXX
Wingspan: 38’0″
Length: 26’0″
Max speed: 85 mph
Cruise: 75 mph
Stall: 37 mph
Seats: 2
Sperry 1910 Biplane
Lawrence Sperry first became interested in aviation after seeing Henri Farman make a short flight in Brooklyn in 1908. In the summer of 1910, at age 17, he built an aircraft from an original design on the second floor of his parents’ house in Flatbush.
First flown as a glider, a 60 hp Anzani engine was then procured and the aircraft was successfully flown at the Sheepshead Bay racetrack. Certainly one of the first tractor biplanes constructed in the United States, it was equipped with an unusual multi-wheeled lattice skid undercarriage meant to help the aircraft operate from rough terrain.
Sperry MAT
A communications aircraft designed by Alfred Verville and built by the Sperry Aircraft Company
