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The Spartan C2 is a light aircraft produced in the United States in the early 1930s as a low-cost sport machine that would sell during the Great Depression.

Spartan C2
Role sport aircraft
National origin United States
Manufacturer Spartan Aircraft Company
Designer Willis Brown[1]
First flight 1931[2]
Number built over 56[1]
Jacobs L-3-powered Spartan C2-60
Jacobs L-3-powered Spartan C2-60

Design and development


The C2 is a conventional, low-wing monoplane design with two seats side-by-side in an open cockpit.[2][3] The wing was braced with struts and wires and it carried the main units of the divided fixed undercarriage. Power was supplied by a small radial engine mounted tractor-fashion in the nose, which drove a two-bladed propeller.

Spartan introduced the C2 in 1931 with a 55-hp engine, and sold 16 examples before ongoing economic circumstances brought production to a halt.[2] Spartan then built 2 examples with 165-hp engines to use in their own flying school. These latter aircraft were fitted with hoods that could be closed over the cockpit for training pilots in instrument flying.[1][4] Spartan offered this version to the U.S. military as a trainer,[5] but officials at the time believed that low-wing monoplanes were unsuitable for pilot training.[4] Spartan also tendered a proposal to the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce to provide its inspectors with a two-seat light aircraft.[5] The design in question was probably the C2-60,[5] but in any case, the tender was not accepted.[5]


Variants



Operators



Aircraft on display


Three C2s are preserved in museums — a restored example on display at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum,[6] a restored and flyable example at the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum in Hood River, Oregon, and an example awaiting restoration at the Golden Wings Flying Museum, Blaine, Minnesota.[7]


Specifications (C2-60)


Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1931,[8] Aerofiles: Spartan[1]

General characteristics

Performance


See also


Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era


References


Notes
  1. "C2-60, -165", Aerofiles
  2. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft, p.2955
  3. Taylor 1989, p.835
  4. "Spartan's Aircraft Manufacturing History"
  5. "The Spartan Aircraft Company"
  6. "Exhibits", Tulsa Air and Space Museum
  7. "Aircraft", Golden Wings Flying Museum
  8. Grey, C.G., ed. (1931). Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1931. London: Sampson Low, Marston & company, ltd. p. 316c.
Bibliography

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Spartan C2 — американский лёгкий спортивный самолёт разработанный в 1931 году компанией Spartan Aircraft Company[en], под руководством Уиллиса Брауна (Willis Brown).[1]



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