The Eshelman FW-5 was a 1940s
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experimental cabin monoplane designed and built at Dundalk, Maryland by the
Cheston L. Eshelman Company.
Design and development
The FW-5 was a cantilever low-wing monoplane, it had an unusual wing planform in which the wing centre-section was blended into the fuselage, this gave rise to the name ''The Wing''.
It had a fixed tailwheel
landing gear
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and was powered by a Avco Lycoming flat-six piston engine.
The enclosed cabin had room for a pilot and three passengers. First flown in 1942 only two aircraft were built.
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1940s United States civil utility aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1942
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Conventional landing gear
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