About six 1928 Hisso Swallow (ATC 50) were built. Usually powered by a 150hp Hisso A engine, some powered by 180hp Hisso E.
Engine: 150hp Hisso A
Wingspan: 32’8″
Length: 24’3″
Useful load: 930 lb
Max speed: 115 mph
Cruise: 99 mph
Stall: 48 mph
Range: 500 mi
Seats: 3
Two Swallow G-29 were built, in 1928. They were registered NC6099 and NC6197 c/ns G-310 and G-302. Three-seat, open cockpit biplanes, powered with 225hp Wright J-5 engine, the latter had a 150hp Hisso A in 1939.
The 1929 Swallow F-28-AX (ATC 125) was a three-place, open cockpit, priced at $5,850. Powered with a 150hp Axelson-Floco B engine, five were built, with several converted to Wright J-5 or Hisso A engines.
Engine: 150hp Axelson-Floco B
Wingspan: 32’8″
Length: 23’10”
Useful load: 923 lb
Max speed: 110 mph
Cruise: 93 mph
Stall: 45 mph
Range: 450-600 mi
Seats: 3
The 1929 Swallow H was a three-place open cockpit biplane designed by Dan Lake. One prototype was built, registered NX/NC108V c/n 101, powered by a 100hp Kinner K-5 engine.
The Swallow H was converted to the HA Sport in 1930 (ATC 341), still registered X/NC109V but with c/n 102. It was priced at $4,250 and powered by a 150hp Axelson-Floco B engine.
The Swallow HA was later converted to a HW model with a new c/n.
The HC Sport three-place open cockpit biplane of 1929 was powered by a 160hp Continental A-70 and registered NC110V c/n 2003.
The 1930 HW Sport (ATC 379) registered NC109V c/n 2002 was the HA refitted with a 165hp Wright J-6 engine.
H
Engine: 100hp Kinner K-5
Wingspan: 31’0″
Seats: 3
HA Sport
Engine: 150hp Axelson-Floco B
Wingspan: 31’0″
Length: 22’2″
Useful load: 784 lb
Max speed: 130 mph
Cruise: 110 mph
Stall: 42 mph
Range: 435 mi
Seats: 3
HC Sport
Engine: 160hp Continental A-70
Seats: 3
HW
Engine: 165hp Wright J-6
Wingspan: 31’0″
Length: 22’2″
Useful load: 820 lb
Max speed: 135 mph
Cruise: 115 mph
Stall: 42 mph
Range: 500 mi
Seats: 3
In 1927 Swallow built the Irl Beach designed two-place Dallas Spirit NX941 for the Dole Race, piloted by William P Erwin. It failed to compete, but took-off two days later as a search plane and was itself lost at sea.
Engine: 225hp Wright J-5
Wingspan: 48’0″
Max speed: 126 mph
Cruise: 105 moh
Stall: 45 mph
Seats: 2
Designed by Sam Bloomfield (ex-Fairchild Corp) in 1936, the Swallow Aircraft Co C Coupe (ATC 2-538 issued in 1937) sold for $3,990.
Three were built; NC15818, NC18586, and NC19540, of which one crashed in a fog, killing company president E B Christopher, and one went to Chile as CC-DVC.
C Coupe
Engine: 125hp Menasco C-4
Wingspan: 36’8″
Length: 24’4″
Useful load: 530 lb
Max speed: 145 mph
Cruise: 135 mph
Stall: 43 mph
Range: 500 mi
Ceiling: 18,000′
Seats: 2
The 1928 Swallow Aircraft Co T-29 was a three-place open cockpit biplane powered by a 120hp Quick (static LeRhône) engine. The one built, registered NX/NC3904 c/n B-1, was later refitted with a 150hp Hisso A engine.
The 1929 Swallow TP (ATC 105) was designed by Amos Payne. Priced at $1,725 less motor, about 200 were built. Strengthened construction, wider cockpits.
The 1929 TP-K (ATC 186, 2-500) was priced at $4,123. Twenty to twenty-five were built.
Three TP-W (ATC 253) were built in 1929, priced at $4,250.
TP
Engine: 90hp Curtiss OX-5
Wingspan: 30’11”
Length: 23’7″
Useful load: 542 lb
Max speed: 90 mph
Cruise: 75 mph
Stall: 35 mph
Range: 300 mi
Seats: 2
TP-K
Engine: 100hp Kinner K-5
Wingspan: 30’11”
Length: 23’10”
Useful load: 530 lb
Max speed: 100 mph
Cruise: 85 mph
Stall: 35 mph
Range: 340 mi
TP-W
Engine: 110hp Warner Scarab
Designed by Dan Lake, and built Oct 1929 by Swallow as a monoplane with a 165hp Wright as C-165 NX431N c/n 1, and relicensed as N431N in October 1930.
Sold to Dan Lake in October 1933 by the receivers of Swallow. The company name could not be used, so Lake used his own name and changed the model to C-1 as a four place cabin biplane after switching to the 150hp Hisso engine.
Sold in May 1935 to Stanley Ball of Wichita and the registration was cancelled on 1 June 1936.
C-165
Engine: 165hp Wright J-6
Wing span: 38’0″
Length: 25’6″
Seats: 4
$5,390 with starter
In one last desperate gamble, Jake Moellendick committed all the company’s resources to building a Swallow monoplane, the Dallas Spirit, to win the $35,000 1927 Dole Prize for the first civilian flight from California to Hawaii. The Swallow monoplane was one of two that turned back, but a couple of days later during a second attempt to reach Hawaii, the plane was lost nine hours out over the sea. The Swallow Company went down with the Dallas Spirit.
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