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With well over 100 looks and no correct answers, here are the answers which may surprise. 1. Cessna Aircraft Company 2. Cessna model 160. This model number fit between the C150-A152 Aerobat and the C1...

I don't check the Web before crafting these quizzes; and you apparently used enough of my text to get the right on-the-mark answer-nothing wrong with doing that. I am usually surprised when many of my...

Congrats to Minnesota friend Timothy! You may have set a record for correct responses here. My source was also by Phillips, but a different book-Beechcraft Pursuit of Perfection, A History of Beechcra...

Congratulations, you are correct on all questions. I was last at EAA AirVenture (Oshkosh) ten years ago, with 540 thousand attendance then and I probably wouldn't recognize it with all the expansion s...

Well, this puppy stopped hunting so here are the answers-which may surprise. In 1897 a Swedish expedition led by Salomon Andre (a Swedish engineer) with two crew tried to reach the exact geographic (a...

Thank you, Rob! Lockheed's Mach 3 Archangel project aircraft had several names/nomenclatures along its development and test phases. The developed Lockheed A-12 Blackbird was the exact version the pilo...

Congratulations to you! The year of Certification was also 1937. Only eleven aircraft were built in 1937 to 1939. A time that America was coming out of the Depression Era. The aircraft had a distincti...

With over 100 looks and no replies, here are the answers, which may surprise. 1a. Jim Bede, 1b. Test bed for the six seat BD-3. 2. BEDE XBD-2, STOL and research aircraft. BONUS-Registry N327BD. Fixed ...

Daniel, a re-look today at the FAA Registry shows/confirms registrations for 20 DIFFERENT serial numbers of ADAM A500 aircraft, with some multiple registrations of the 20 different serial numbers. To ...

Congrats on your quick reply. My 1980 reference info only differs on the number of 195s built. It states between 1947 and 1954 890 Model 195s and 195As were built. This may exclude your military build...

You basically got it; and I will end your struggles. Here are my answers. 1A. Douglas Model O-2. 1B. Certificated on 18 June 1927 with Approved Type Certificate #4 by Department of Commerce. Power pla...

Congratulations on getting this oddball quiz mainly correct! My answers differ only on a few of the questions. Source of quiz was AIR FORCE Magazine USAF Almanac 2017 published June 2017. 156 pages of...

With over 250 views, here is the answer. This 1928 biplane aircraft converted to a cropduster is the OLDEST crop duster registered and working in the USA, based in northern California. Subject of a Te...

Congrats, Rob-you got it exactly right! The Brodie system was the successful brainstorm of Lt. James H. Brodie of the US Army to provide air observation of a convoy by basing one or more systems on co...

Thanks friend Timothy, It is difficult over time to establish true aircraft data when a choice of engines were originally offered, or power upgraded by STC and with ownership changes the official FAA ...

Thank you for the most interesting link, it apparently questions time-wise one of the Web's Cook Aircraft Company references of mine.

Indeed, I was at Airventure this past week. The latest Mooney and Piper aircraft were set up near each other and seemed to have a decent crowd all week. The blue angels had a nice performance and the ...

With more than 250 views and no answers-here are the answers. 1. Beech Aircraft Company. Founded April 1932. 2. Walter H. Beech, company founder with wife Olive Ann Beech. 3. Beech model SUPER E18S tw...

OOPS! I am embarrassed as my Cessna reference has heretofore been trustworthy and I missed your good references re the setback of the diesel C182. It appears that Rob may have the correct diesel C172 ...

With over 500 views and no right answers, here are the answers. 1a. Grumman Aerospace Corporation, 1b. Grumman F-14A TOMCAT 2a. McDonnell Douglas Corporation, 2b. McDonnell Douglas F-4J PHANTOM. All U...