Spartan Clipper

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name=Clipper


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type=Civil touring aeroplane
manufacturer=Spartan Aircraft Limited
designer=H.E. Broadsmith
first flight=14 December 1932
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retired=Destroyed 4 May 1942
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primary user=Spartan Aircraft Limited
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produced=1932
number built=1
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variants with their own articles=The Spartan Clipper was a British light touring aeroplane of the 1930s. It was a single-engine, two-seat, low-wing monoplane with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage.

Development

H.E. Broadsmith designed the Clipper as a two-seater; he employed the outer wings of the Monospar ST-4. Spartan Aircraft Limited built one example at their East Cowes works in 1932. The aeroplane was initially fitted with a 75-hp Pobjoy R motor. Registered "G-ACEG" it flew for the first time on 14 December 1932. After modification to undercarriage, cabin glazing and cowling, it received a Certificate of Airworthiness on 29 June 1933.

In 1933 the Clipper was raced in the King's Cup Race.

In 1938, it was re-engined with a Pobjoy Niagara III of 90-hp, after which it was used as a company hack until 4 May 1942, when it was destroyed in an air raid on Cowes.

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length main= 28 ft 2 in
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