| Arrow Sport | |
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| Arrow Sport of 1927 at Lakeland, Florida, in April 2007 | |
| Role | Sports plane |
| Manufacturer | Arrow Aircraft and Motors |
| Designer | Sven Swanson |
| First flight | 1926 |
| Number built | ca. 100 |
| Unit cost | $2985 for an Arrow Sport 85 in 1931 |
The Arrow Sport was a two-seat sporting biplane aircraft built in the United States in the 1920s and 30s.
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It was of largely conventional configuration with tailskid undercarriage, but was interesting in that the pilot and passenger sat side-by-side in the open cockpit, and because as originally designed, the fully cantilever wings lacked interplane struts – the upper wing attaching directly to the top of the fuselage. This latter feature proved so alarming to many prospective pilots that the manufacturer later supplied N-type struts that were of no real function other than to allay the aviators' fears.
Several Sport aircraft are currently flying in the United States in 2009. Nine Sports are preserved in U.S. museums and collections including an example of the A2-60 variant at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.[1]
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