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American Champion: Full-Service Factory

It all started with a bathtub. In the late 1920s, the cost to rent the airplanes available was a dollar a minute-thats over $14 in current dollars. The over 100-HP radial engines necessary to power the boxkite biplanes werent cheap to run. Naturally, there were a lot of people trying to come up with an airplane that would be more affordable for the many who lusted to fly.

Rick Durden
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It all started with a bathtub. In the late 1920s, the cost to rent the airplanes available was a dollar a minute—that’s over $14 in current dollars. The over 100-HP radial engines necessary to power the boxkite biplanes weren’t cheap to run. Naturally, there were a lot of people trying to come up with an airplane that would be more affordable for the many who lusted to fly.

Rick Durden

Senior Editor Rick Durden has written for Aviation Consumer since 1994 and specializes in aviation law. Rick is an active CFII and holds an ATP with type ratings in the Douglas DC-3 and Cessna Citation. He is the author of The Thinking Pilot’s Flight Manual or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball Doing It, Vols. 1 & 2.