In 1957 Sim Paine built a single place, closed cockpit, high wing monoplane, registered N2747A.
Engine: 65hp Continental A-65-8
Wingspan: 24’0″
Length: 17’9″
Useful load: 158 lb
Max speed: 115 mph
Cruise speed: 95 mph
Stall speed: 50 mph
Aircraft
Paine, Sim
Sim Paine, Booker TX.
Circa 1957 airplane builder
Pagé-Light Biplane
The 1909 single place Pagé-Light Biplane, loosely described as a Blériot XII copy with a lower biplane wing and interplane ailerons, was the work of Victor W Pagé and Oliver Light, both of Farmingdale, New York. At a February 1910 Boston aviation exhibition, the Pagé-Light was exhibited by the L.A.W. (League of American Wheelmen) Motors Company, and it was known under that name as well. The craft was powered by one of the company’s two-cycle Light rotary.
Pagé-Light
Victor W Pagé (nee: Pager) & Oliver Light, Farmingdale NY.
In 1909 Victor W Pagé & Oliver Light built a biplane. It was designed by the founder of Pagé aviation mechanic training schools, Victor W Pagé, and author of several popular technical aviation books c.1918-35.
Packard-LePere LUSAC-25
The LUSAC-25 (LUSAC = LePere US Army Combat) of 1919 was a development of the LUSAC-11.
Five are known to have been built: AS40025/40029.
Packard-LePere LUSAC-21
The LUSAC-21 (LUSAC = LePere US Army Combat) of 1919 was LUSAC-11 refitted with the 420hp Bugatti 16 engine. One prototype was converted: AS40023.
Thirty LUSAC-11s with Liberty engines and three LUSAC-21 s with Bugatti engines were built, but contracts for quantity production were cancelled at end of First World War.
Engine: 420hp Bugatti 16
Length: 27’1″
Gross wt: 4485 lb
Packard-Le Pere LUSAO-11
The 1919 LUSAO-11 (LUSAC = LePere US Army Observation) was a high-altitude long-range three seat open cockpit triplane observation aircraft for the Signal Corps.
Only one prototype was built, SC40012.
Engines: 2 x Liberty 12, 400hp
Props: four-blade
Wingspan: 54’6″
Length: 38’2
Useful load: 3122 lb
Mas speed: 112 mph
Cruise speed: 106 mph
Stall: 60 mph
Range: 475 m
Ceiling: 17,300′
Packard-Le Pere LUSAC-11 / LUSAGH-11
Captain Le Pere of the French Aviation mission to the USA, and Dwight Huntington designed a two-seat fighter, the LUSAC-11 (Le Pere United States Army Combat), which was built by the Packard Motor Car Company in 1918.
First flying in August 1918 piloted by Lt de Marmier, the LUSAC 11 (LUSAC = LePere US Army Combat) featured a plywood fuselage and box-type wing struts. It was the first US aircraft with a turbo-supercharger, and first to leave a vapor trail, on 27 February 1920.
Two prototypes and 24 production LUSAC-11s with Liberty engines [AS40013/40023, AS42129/42142, AS42151] and three LUSAC-21s with Bugatti engines were built, but contracts for nearly 3,500 were cancelled at end of First World War.
AS40021 was modified as a single seat LUSAGH-11 with longer wings and a canopied cockpit at McCook Field. LUSAGH = LePere US Army Ground Harassment.
LUSAC-11
Engine: Liberty 12, 425hp
Wingspan: 41’7″ (?>39’0″)
Length: 25’3″ (?>25’5″)
Max speed: 133 mph
Cruise speed: 118 mph
Stall: 50
Range: 320 mi
Ceiling: 20,200′
Seats: 2
Packard-Le Pere
USA
Captain Le Pere of the French Aviation mission to the U.S.A. designed a two-seat fighter, the LUSAC-11 (Le Pere United States Army Combat), which was built by the Packard Motor Car Company in 1918. Thirty LUSAC-11 s with Liberty engines and three LUSAC-21 s with Bugatti engines were built, but contracts for quantity production were cancelled at end of First World War.
Packard A / 1-A
Circa 1919, the two place open cockpit biplane Packard A was Packard’s entry, featuring a self-starter, was planned for a civil market that failed to develop.
Only one was built, registered cn 01, N707.
A two place open cockpit biplane with a 200hp Packard-Liberty 8 found in the registers might be this ship, but it was not specified as actually a Packard Co product. The registry shows several private owners in Mt Clemens and Saginaw.
Engine: 160hp Packard 8
Useful load: 647 lb
Speed: 102 mph
Ceiling: 19,500′
Seats: 2
