- Arpin A-1
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type=Observation aircraft
manufacturer=M. B. Arpin & Co.
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introduced=7 May 1938
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variants with their own articles=The Arpin A-1 was an unorthodoxmonoplane aircraft submitted to the British Army for evaluation as an observation aircraft in 1938. Of pod-and-boom configuration, it had a low wing,pusher propeller , fixed tricycleundercarriage , and twin tails. The Army ordered the more conventional Taylorcraft D instead.pecifications
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gross weight lb=1,300eng1 number=1
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