Dart Aircraft
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Dart Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer during the 1930s. Its facilities were located at Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
[edit] History
The company was founded by A.R.Weyl and E.P.Zander as Zander and Weyl Limited at Dunstable. The company name was later changed to Dart Aircraft Limited. The company began by constructing gliders, and also constructed replicas of several historic aircraft including in 1937 a replica of the Blériot cross-channel aircraft.
[edit] Aircraft
By the middle of the decade the company had begun designing and constructing light single-engine aircraft:
- The Dunstable Dart (renamed Dart Pup when the company name was changed). The Dart was a light aircraft built in 1936; only one example was built. The aircraft was destroyed in a 1938 crash.
- The Dart Flittermouse, a single-seat ultralight monoplane built in 1936. Only one example was built. It survived until it was scrapped in 1951.
- The Dart Kitten, another single-seat ultralight. The Kitten I first flew in 1937.
- The Kitten II was also first flown in 1937.
- The Kitten III was built in 1951
A fourth Kitten was home-built in Australia in the 1960s.
[edit] References
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985). London: Orbis Publishing, 1985.
- Jackson, A.J. British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 2. London: Putnam, 1974 ISBN 0-370-10010-7.
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