• Source: Buhl-Verville CA-3 Airster

The 3/info/buhl" target="_blank">Buhl-3/info/verville" target="_blank">Verville 3/info/ca" target="_blank">CA-3 Airster (also known as the J4 Airster, after its engine), was a utility aircraft built in the United States in 1926, notable as the first aircraft to receive a type certificate in the US, (i.e. A.T.C. No. 1) issued by the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce on March 29, 1927. It was a conventional single-bay biplane with equal-span unstaggered wings and accommodation for the pilot and passengers in tandem open cockpits. Marketed for a variety of roles including crop-dusting, aerial photography, and freight carriage, only a handful were built, some with water-cooled engines as the CW-3, and others with air-cooled engines as the 3/info/ca" target="_blank">CA-3 . One 3/info/ca" target="_blank">CA-3 placed second in the 1926 Ford National Reliability Air Tour.
1926 Ford Air Tour, piloted by Louis Meister, and another (designated the 3/info/ca" target="_blank">CA-3A) placed third in the 1927 Air Derby, piloted by Nick Mamer. One CW-3 and one 3/info/ca" target="_blank">CA-3 each were evaluated by the United States Army as trainers, but neither were purchased.




Versions






= 3/info/ca" target="_blank">CA

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3/info/ca" target="_blank">CA-3 Airster (1926) aka J4 Airster or B-V Airster
200 hp Wright J-4 (a.k.a. J-4 Whirlwind)
Folding wings
awarded the first ATC ever issued, March 1927 (ATC 1, 2-6)
one modified under ATC 2-6 as 2p with 220 hp Wright J-5 as a trainer for Army trials
3/info/ca" target="_blank">CA-3A Airster (1926)
225 hp Wright J-5
3 built
cost: $9,300
3/info/ca" target="_blank">CA-3B Airster (1926)
one built




= CW

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CW-3 OX5 Airster (1925)
90hp Curtiss OX-5
useful load: 770 lbs
range: 475 miles
Folding wings
three built
CW-3 Wright Trainer (1926)
220 hp Wright J-5
useful load: 885 lbs
range: 450 miles
one built for unsuccessful military trainer trials




Specifications (3/info/ca" target="_blank">CA-3A)


Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1928General characteristics
Crew: 1
Capacity: 2 pax, max useful load 885 lb (401 kg)
Length: 24 ft 7.5 in (7.506 m)
Wingspan: 35 ft 8 in (10.87 m)
Height: 8 ft 10 in (2.69 m)
Wing area: 303 sq ft (28.1 m2)
Empty weight: 1,550 lb (703 kg)
Gross weight: 2,995 lb (1,359 kg)
Fuel capacity: 40 US gal (33.3 imp gal; 151.4 L) fuselage main tank and 22 US gal (18.3 imp gal; 83.3 L) centre-section gravity tank
Powerplant: 1 × Wright J-5 Whirlwind 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 225 hp (168 kW)
Propellers: 2-bladed wooden fixed-pitch propeller
Performance

Maximum speed: 125 mph (201 km/h, 109 kn)
Range: 475 mi (764 km, 413 nmi)
Service ceiling: 16,000 ft (4,900 m)
Rate of climb: 950 ft/min (4.8 m/s)
Time to altitude: 7,250 ft (2,210 m) in 10 minutes




See also



Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era

Alexander Eaglerock
American Eagle A-101
Brunner-Winkle Bird
Command-Aire 3C3
Parks P-1
Pitcairn Mailwing
Spartan C3
Stearman C2 and C3
Swallow New Swallow
Travel Air 2000 and 4000
Waco 10

Related lists

List of aircraft
List of civil aircraft




References






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= Bibliography

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Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 216.
http://www.aerofiles.com/_buhl.html
Federal Aviation Administration history page
"The 3/info/buhl" target="_blank">Buhl-3/info/verville" target="_blank">Verville Airster". Aero Digest. Vol. 8, no. 3. March 1926. pp. 130–131. Retrieved 23 July 2022.

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