Westbrook W-5 / W-5-B Sportster

Westbrook W-5 NC966V

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.

Westbrook Sportster

The W-5-B Sportster had an 85hp British Cirrus (2-455). Folding all-wood wings and selling for $2,650.

Westbrook Sportster

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

Weser

Weser Flugzeugbau Ag.
Finanz-und-Wervaltungs GmbH

Formed, as Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH, aviation department of Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau “Weser” AG. in 1934. Took over Rohrbach Metallflugzeugbau GmbH. Undertook contract manufacture during First World War for other manufacturers. Reconstituted in 1956 as the Finanz-und-Wervaltungs GmbH, reverting to Weser Flugzeugbau 1959. The company then built the Nord Noratlas under license from 1960, with Hamburger Flugzeugbau and Siebelwerke-ATG, under the name of Flugzeugbau Nord GmbH at Hamburg. In 1958, with Hamburger, Nord Aviation, and Dipl. Ing. Prof Walter Blume Leichtbau-und-Flugtechnik, it formed Arbeitsgemeinschaft Transall. Finally the company combined with Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau in 1963, losing its individual identity entirely.

Werkheiser & Matson Model A / Experimental

The 1935 Model A or Experimental two place cabin monoplane NX15390 c/n 101 was built by C M Matson & Harlan Werkheiser of Bloomsburg PA. First flying in June 1935 the CAA inspector commented he suspected the X-license, applied for on 10/15/35, “… was to avoid a state law.”

It was sold on and the registration cancelled on 28 July 1948.

Engine: 100hp Cirrus MkIII
Seats: 2