Monocoupe Aircraft
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Monocoupe Aircraft was a manufacturer of light airplanes originally produced in the late 1920s and 30s.[2] They introduced relatively inexpensive, compact, and sporty aircraft in an era of large, maintenance intensive, open-cockpit biplanes, and the Monocoupe series was one of the first economical, closed-cabin, two-seat, light aircraft in the United States. As a result, the Monocoupe soon became a successful brand.[2]
Central States Airplane Company was established in 1927 to build Don Luscombe's Monocoupe.[3] In January 1928, the company became the Mono Aircraft Division of Velie Motor Corporation. Following Willard Velie's death in March 1929, the Velie interests were sold to Allied Aviation Industries, a holding company. By May, these interests were divided into two separate companies: the Lambert Aircraft Engine Corporation and the Mono Aircraft Company of Moline, Illinois. Both companies passed into receivership in 1931, reemerging in 1932 as the Lambert Engine and Machine Company and the Monocoupe Corporation. In July 1934, the two companies joined under the newly formed Lambert Aircraft Corporation with Monocoupe continuing to operate under its own name.
The company was dissolved in 1940 and its assets passed to the Monocoupe Aeroplane and Engine Corporation of Orlando, Florida.[4] Later, in September 1941, Monocoupe acquired the Bristol Aircraft Corporation of Bristol, Virginia and its Canadian subsidiary Bristol Aircraft Products Ltd. The operations of these three companies were combined under the Universal Molded Products Corporation with Monocoupe forming a separate division of the company. Aircraft production halted during World War II, resuming briefly in 1948-1950 under the name Monocoupe Airplane and Engine Corporation. In 1955, the corporate assets were acquired by a West Virginia aviation group, which reorganized the company as Monocoupe Aircraft of Florida, Inc. and transferred operations to Melbourne, Florida.[4]
The company name re-emerged as Mono Aircraft, Inc. briefly in 1992, in Cheney, Kansas, with the Monocoupe type certificate acquired by Saturn Aircraft & Engineering, Oxnard, California. Aviat Aircraft developed a modernized variation of the Monocoupe 110 as the 200-horsepower 110 Special, and sold a few with modern 200-horsepower engines.[2][5] The Monocoupe Aeroplane Corporation was again re-established in Grantville, Pennsylvania, in late 2016, to build reproduction Monocoupe 110 Specials with Warner 185 engines and modern technology.
| Model name | First flight | Number built | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monocoupe Meteor | |||
| Monocoach Model H | |||
| Monocoach Model 201 | |||
| Monocoach Model 275 | |||
| Monocoupe Model 5 | |||
| Monocoupe Model 22 | 1927 | 20 | |
| Monocoupe Model 70 | 1928 | ||
| Monocoupe Model 90 | |||
| Monocoupe Model 110 | |||
| Monocoupe Model 113 | |||
| Monocoupe Model 125 | |||
| Monocoupe Model D-145 | |||
| Monoprep Model 90 | |||
| Monoprep Model 218 | |||
| Monosport Model 1 | |||
| Monosport Model 2 | |||
| Monosport Model D | |||
| Monosport Model G | |||
| Monocoupe Model 1344 | |||
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