- Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company
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Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company Industry Aircraft parts and manufacturing Fate Sold to Air Associates Inc in 1938. Predecessor Central Aviation Company Founded 1921 Defunct 2 May 1938 Headquarters Marshall, Missouri Key people Russell Nicholas and Howard Beazley Subsidiaries Marshall Flying School Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company was an American aircraft manufacturer of the 1920s and 1930s
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Company history
In 1921, the Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company was founded by Russell B. (Penny) Nicholas and Howard Beazley. Nicholas started Central Aviation Company reselling surplus propellers, and in 1924 renamed the company to reflect the addition of Howard Beazley as partner. Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company started as a reseller of surplus Curtiss OX-5 parts through mail-order catalogs, expanding into a wide variety of airplane construction materials.[1] [2] Nicholas-Beazley resold 57 Armstrong-Siddeley Genet engines originally sold by Fairchild, becoming the US distributor.[3] Surplus Standard J aircraft were modified and marketed by the company.
In 1927, Walter Barling was hired to engineer the first in-house aircraft, the NB-3. In 1929, Tom Kirkup was hired to design the NB-8G. 57 units were completed and sold. At its peak, the company produced as many as one aircraft per day.[4] In 1937, production of aircraft ceased, after the great depression.
The Nicholas-Beazley Aircraft Company Museum resides at Marshall Memorial Municipal Airport in Marshall, Missouri, featuring a NB-3 on display.
Aircraft
Summary of aircraft built by Model name First flight Number built Type NB-3 1928 Low wing monoplane NB-8G 1931 57 Parasol Pobjoy Special 1930 1 Racing aircraft References
- ^ "Nicholas-Beazley Aircraft Company Museum". http://www.antiqueairfield.com/articles/show/736-nicholas-beazley-aircraft-company-museum. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
- ^ "NB3". http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=135:nicholas-beazley-nb-8g&Itemid=87. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
- ^ "Nicholas-Beazley NB-8G". http://www.historicaircraftrestorationmuseum.org/NB-8G.htm. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
- ^ John David Anderson. The airplane, a history of its technology.
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