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...tiny yellow Aeronca, at $1,355 a Porterfield Zephyr. At $2,468 was the Rearwin Sportster, which flew in from Kansas City on $10.68 in fuel. Speediest looking of the little planes was the Ryan STA, only all-metal job as cheap as $4,885. In a higher bracket were the bigger ships like Bellanca ($23,000), Beechcraft C17R ($14,500), Stinson Reliant ($7,985), Waco ($5,395), Luscombe ($5,500), Monocoupe ($3,825), Argonaut ($5.450), Fairchild 24 ($5,590), stainless steel Fleetwing ($18,500), each with room for several passengers in luxurious automobile-like cabins. Great majority were cabin...
...Harvard Flying Club has decided to rent planes, for the use of its members, from the Inter-City Airlines at East Boston, which company has agreed to let the club use its planes at special reduced rates. The planes that will be made available to club-members include: Aeronca, Fleet Trainer, Fairchild Warner 22, Waco Cabin, and possibly Fairchild Cabin...
...Avian biplane. Their ambition was to become Chinese Air Force pilots. Last week Student Pilots Wong & Fong decided to put on an aerial exhibition to welcome to the U. S. Chang Fa-kwei, China's famed "Iron General." Fong flew the Avian. Wong hired a tiny 2-cyl. Aeronca at Flushing Airport. Over Brooklyn's people-packed Williamsburg district they flew in close formation, weaved back & forth, up & down. Then, in a flash, Wong zoomed up too close. Like a buzz saw, Fong's propeller sheared off his plane's tail, sent him whirling and whining...
...been expected, it was largely a "light-plane show," about half the planes on display falling into the price range between $1,000 and $3,000. Notable among the "flivver planes" were Stout's Sky Car (TIME, April 13), the Buhl Bull Pup, Curtiss-Wright Junior, the Aeronca and the Heath...
Other light planes of the year: Heath ($975),†† American Eaglet ($995 & $1,395), Aeronca ($1,495), Huntington Chum...