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Waco A series
The Waco A series is a range of light American-built twin side-by-side seater sporting biplanes of the early 1930s.
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Development
The Waco A series was introduced in 1932 as an affordable private-owner aircraft with cross-country range and baggage capacity and a more sporting image than the larger Waco F series. The A series offered a number of engine options which had varying sub-designations. The power range lay between the KBA with a Template:Convert Kinner engine and the later UBA with a Template:Convert Continental powerplant.[1]
The PLA "Sportsman" of 1933 introduced a longer wider fuselage and a higher useful load and had a Template:Convert Jacobs LA-1 radial engine. The last model in the series was the ULA, also of 1933, with a Template:Convert powerplant.[2]
Operational history
The A series was bought mainly by private pilot owners with a sporting inclination. Relatively few were produced and the type survives in small numbers in 2009. A PBA is on display in the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum at Dauster Field near St Louis, Missouri.
Variants (in approximate chronological order)
(per Simpson, 2001, p. 574)
- KBA
- Template:Convert Kinner K-5
- IBA
- Template:Convert Kinner B-5
- PBA
- Template:Convert Jacobs LA-1
- RBA
- Template:Convert Warner Scarab
- TBA
- Template:Convert Kinner R-5
- UBA
- Template:Convert Continental R-670
- PLA
- longer and wider fuselage and Template:Convert Jacobs LA-1
- ULA
- as PLA with Template:Convert Continental R-670
Specifications (RBA variant)
References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Green, William (1965). The Aircraft of the World. Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. ISBN none.
- Simpson, Rod (2001). Airlife's World Aircraft. Airlife Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-84037-115-3.
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