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Anderson Aircraft 1927 biplane / Miss Anderson / Welch Biplane

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In 1927 Anderson Aircraft Mfg Co built a two-place biplane designed by Fred Parker and Orin Welch.

It was a Swallow type with elephant-ear ailerons; christened Miss Anderson, and registered as Welch Biplane.

Registered N1405, it was sold in 1928, and was badly damaged in a cornfield forced landing. Its remains were stored in a Gaston IN auto garage and eventually disappeared.

Engine: 90hp Curtiss OX-5
Wingspan: 36’8″
Length: 22’10”
Seats: 2

Universal TC-1

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The 1935 Universal TC-1 was a single-place, open cockpit triplane, modified from the French Mignet HM-11 design by Cassell De Hibbs.

Originally offered as a free airplane included as an incentive with the purchase of a Universal motor; later sold for $695. As a kit aircraft, design was claimed by Lillian Holden. Plans were marketed in 1953 by George Frisbie, DePere WI.

Those built include N18254 c/n 1109-F, N18291 c/n 7126-F, N18376 c/n 24, and N18750] c/n 33.

Engine: 40hp Universal (Ford B) or 65hp Continental A-65
Wingspan: 21’9″
Length: 16’1″ (?>13’0″)
Cruise: 80 mph
Stall: 30-40 mph
Seats: 1

Mignet HM-11 / American Flea HM-20 / HM-21 / HM-23 / Universal American Fleaship

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American Mignet HM-20 NX18218

American Mignet Aircraft Corp undertook license production of French Mignet HM-11 “Flying Flea” ultralight design in the 1930s.

The first was known as HM-20 NX18218 c/n 1.

Subsequent units were sequentially numbered as HM-21 NX18226 c/n 2, HM-23 NX18240 c/n 3.

Then subsequent units were known as Universal American Fleaship, including N11599, N17619 and N17620, and N17650 to N17653, and Flea Triplane (Universal TC-1).