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Batson

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Batson Air Navigation Co
Savannah GA
USA

Aiplane builder 1912-13

Bataille 1911 triplane

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The 1911 Bataille triplane was designed and built by Cesar Bataille in Belgium.

Bathiat-Sanchez Seaplane

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The 1913 Bathiat-Sanchez single float seaplane was designed and built by Bathiat (French) and Sanchez (Chile).

Span: 44’3″

Bathiat-Sanchez Type E

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The 1913 Bathiat-Sanchez Type E monoplane was designed and built by Bathiat (French) and Sanchez (Chile).

Bathiat-Sanchez 1913 pusher

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The 1913 Bathiat-Sanchez pusher biplane was designed and built by Bathiat (French) and Sanchez (Chile).

Span: 44’3″
Length: 33’2″
Weight gross: 1815 lbs
Speed: 56 mph

France
Established at Issy-le-Moulineaux as successors to Roger Sommer, and with a flying school at Bouy, Marne, in 1914 this company was producing a single-seat high-wing monoplane with tractor propeller, and a two-seat biplane with pusher propeller.

Bates Biplane Glider

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Many “Early Birds” were first airborne in what became known as the Popular Mechanics Glider. Do-it-yourself drawings were published by that magazine in April 1909, from a design by Carl Bates of Chicago. Hundreds of them were built.

The glider, properly registered with the FAA as N2579, was built in 1970 by Robert Mixon and his partner Gary Alfonzo of Miami, Florida. It had a wing span of 20 feet, with a total of 160 square feet of wing area. It made only two flights, both ending with the tail hitting the cliff from which it was launched and the second causing a severely sprained ankle.