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The Porterfield Model 35 Flyabout was an American two-seat cabin monoplane built by the
Porterfield Aircraft Corporation
The Porterfield Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft design and manufacturing company founded in 1934 in Kansas by Edward E. Porterfield.
History
Edward Porterfield was running a flying school at the Fairfax Airport outside Kansas Ci ...
of
Kansas City
The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more ...
.
Development
The aircraft was designed by Noel Hockaday and was built by students at the
Wyandotte High School as the Wyandotte Pup. Porterfield Aircraft recognised the potential of the aircraft design and bought the design rights and also the services of Hockaday as works manager and designer. The Pup was developed to appear in 1935 as the Porterfield Model 35 Flyabout a braced high-wing-monoplane. It had a fixed tailskid landing gear and room for two. It was originally powered by a 60 hp (45 kW) LeBlond 5D radial engine. Variants later appeared with different engine installations and a deluxe model the De Luxe Sport. Over 240 aircraft were built.
Variants
;35
:1935 production variant with a 60hp (45kW)
LeBlond 5
The LeBlond radial engines, later produced under the name Ken-Royce, were a family of 3-cylinder, 5-cylinder and 7-cylinder, air-cooled radial engines for aircraft, built in the 1930s by the LeBlond Aircraft Engine Corporation until the operatio ...
D radial engine
;35-70 Flyabout
:1937 production variant with a 70hp (52kW) LeBlond 5DE radial engine.
;35-V
:Variant powered by a 65hp (48kW) Velie M-5 engine.
;35-W
:Luxury model (also known as the Model 90) with a 90hp (67kW)
Warner Scarab Junior radial engine.
;Porterfield 75-C
:75hp Continental A-75
;Porterfield 90 (De Luxe Sport)
:Sporty, deluxe version of 35-W
Operators
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Royal New Zealand Air Force
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Specifications (Model 35-70)
See also
References
Bibliography
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* The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 2760
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