Buhl Airster (1925)

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type=Utility aircraft
manufacturer=Buhl
designer=Alfred Verville
first flight=1926
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The Buhl Airster was a utility aircraft built in the United States in 1926, notable as the first aircraft to receive a type certificate in that country, issued by the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce in March 1927. It was a conventional single-bay biplane with equal-span unstaggered wings and accommodation for the pilot and passengers in tandem open cockpits. Marketed for a variety of roles including crop-dusting, aerial photography, and freight carriage, only a handful were built, some with water-cooled engines as the CW-3, and others with air-cooled engines as the CA-3 . One CA-3 placed second in the 1926 Ford Air Tour, and another placed third in the 1927 Air Derby. One CW-3 and one CA-3 each were evaluated by the United States Army as trainers, but neither were purchased.

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capacity=2 passengers
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range miles=440
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* [http://www.aerofiles.com/_buhl.html aerofiles.com]
* [http://www.faa.gov/about/history/photo_album/foundation/index.cfm?cid=safety&print=go Federal Aviation Administration history page]

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