| Arrow Sport | |
|---|---|
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| Arrow Sport of 1927 at Lakeland, Florida, in April 2007 | |
| Role | Sports plane |
| Manufacturer | Arrow Aircraft and Motors |
| Designer | Sven Swanson |
| First flight | 1926 |
| Number built | ca. 100 |
The Arrow Sport was a two-seat sporting biplane aircraft built in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.
The plane was designed by Swen Swanson and it was of largely conventional configuration with tailskid undercarriage, but was interesting in that the pilot and passenger sat side by side in the open cockpit, and because as originally designed, the fully cantilever wings lacked interplane struts – the upper wing attaching directly to the top of the fuselage. This latter feature proved so alarming to many prospective pilots that the manufacturer later supplied N-type struts that were of no real function other than to allay the aviators' fears.
Nine biplane Sports remain registered in the United States as of 2020, mostly in museums and private collections,[1] including:
Data from American airplane specifications[8]
General characteristics
Performance
