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The Alexander Eaglerock is a
* 122 – Model 24 Long Wing on static display at the
biplane
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produced in the United States in the 1920s by Alexander Aircraft Company
The Alexander Aircraft Company was an aircraft manufacturer founded in Colorado in 1925. It was briefly the world's largest aircraft manufacturer but fell victim to the Great Depression and became bankrupt in 1932.
History Founding
The company ...
of Colorado Springs
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, Colorado
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.Payne, Stephen, ed. ''Canadian Wings'' (Douglas & McIntyre, Ltd., 2006), p.162.
It is a fixed-gear
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three-seater, and was offered in two models, one with a Hispano-Suiza
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"A" engine of , priced at US$
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4000, and one with a Wright J-5 Whirlwind
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, priced at $6500. The Eaglerock was also available fitted with a variety of other engines, of up to , with prices starting at $2250.
Surviving aircraft
* 122 – Model 24 Long Wing on static display at the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum
The Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum is a non-profit aviation museum located in Southern Colorado. It was founded in the mid-1970s by former Pueblo City Manager Fred Weisbrod. The museum is made up of two hangars that were built in 2005 and 2011. ...
in Pueblo, Colorado
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. It is on loan from the Colorado Aviation Historical Society
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and was previously on display at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum
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.
* 469 – Combo-wing on static display at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Washington
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. It is on loan from the Museum of Flight
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.
* 526 – Long Wing airworthy at the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum
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in Hood River, Oregon
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.
* 928 – A-2 on static display at the Science Spectrum
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The Spectrum features over 250 interacti ...
in Lubbock, Texas
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is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 272,086 in 2024, Lubbock is the 10th-most populous city in Texas and the 84th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the ...
.
* 977 – Model A-14 is on static display in Concourse B of Denver International Airport
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in Denver, Colorado
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. It was restored over a 25-year period by the Antique Airplane Association of Colorado.
* On static display at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum
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in Denver, Colorado
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.
Specifications (Eaglerock A-1)
See also
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era
(Partial listing, only covers most numerous types) *American Eagle A-101
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Design and development
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*Brunner-Winkle Bird
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Design and operation
The Model A version was powered by the ubiquitous Curtiss OX-5, and featured a welded steel-tube truss fuselage wit ...
*Buhl-Verville CA-3 Airster
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*Command-Aire 3C3
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The Command-Aire did not at first ap ...
*Parks P-1
The Parks P-1 was an American three-seat sport biplane that was built in the late 1920s.
Design and development
Based in St.Louis, pilot, salesman and entrepreneur Oliver Parks founded an air school, airline and aircraft manufacturing business ...
*Pitcairn Mailwing
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Design and development
The Pitcairn Mailwings were developed to carry air mail for the United States Po ...
*Spartan C3
The Spartan C3 is an American three-seat open-cockpit utility biplane from the late 1920s.
Design
The C3s fuselage and wing struts were built up from welded 41xx steel, chromium-molybdenum alloy steel tubes, faired with wood battens. It had ...
*Stearman C2
The Stearman C2 is an American single-engine three-seat open-cockpit utility biplane, and was the second aircraft type produced by the Stearman Aircraft company. The aircraft first flew in 1927.
Design and development
The airframe of the C2 was ...
and C3
*Swallow New Swallow
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* Travel Air 2000 and 4000
*Waco 10
The Waco 10/GXE/Waco O series was a range of three-seat open-cockpit biplanes built by the Advance Aircraft Company, later the Waco Aircraft Company.
Design and development
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