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The Museum's Arrow Sport is a Model A2-60, serial number 341.
In November 1940, the Arrow Corporation closed its doors. The market did not develop as planned though and, as military production expanded in the late 1930s, Arrow lost money on every airplane it sold. Next came three versions: the Arrow Sport 60 and the Arrow Sport 90 with Le Blond engines, and the Arrow Pursuit with a 100 hp Kinner radial engine.Ībout 100 Sport airplanes were produced through 1931, and Arrow Aircraft and Motors Corporation built aircraft for the weekend pilot throughout the depression. The early Sport 60 initially offered a 6-cylinder 60 hp Anzani engine as well as the Detroit Air Cat engine, however the 5-cylinder 60 hp Le Blond engine soon became the standard production engine. The horizontal stabilizer was adjustable in flight from the left side of the cockpit. The split-axle main landing gear had an unusually wide 78" wheel tread. The entire airplane was fabric covered, doped, and painted in its chosen colors. Later production runs included the interplane "N" struts, made of streamlined steel tubing, as standard equipment. The one-piece cantilever wings were built of spruce box spars and spruce and plywood ribs. The airplane was a structurally robust design with a welded steel tube fuselage and tail. Pilots liked the price and the side-by-side seating, and the vision from the cockpit and the dual controls also made it an excellent trainer aircraft. It received its type certificate as Model A2-60 in February 1929 and sold at the factory for $2,900-$3,485. Swanson, who later designed the Kari-Keen Coupe, Swanson Coupe, Fahlin Coupe and Plymacoupe. The Arrow Aircraft and Motors Corporation of Havelock, Nebraska, built the prototype Arrow Sport in 1926 based on a design by Sven S. However, just as Anthony Fokker did on his WWI era DR-1Triplane and D-VII Biplane, struts were soon added as an option to assuage the fears of wary customers who wondered if the wings might collapse.
Its side-by-side, dual-control cockpit arrangement offered a difference in cockpit configuration and the original cantilever wings were bolted directly to the upper center section strut and the lower fuselage with no interplane struts or external flying wires. The Arrow Sport A2-60 biplane is a rare example of an alternative design depression-era airplane that complements the museum's Kreider-Reisner C-4C (Fairchild KR-34) and the Waco 9, conventional tandem open-cockpit biplanes of that same era.
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