
The Buhl AirSedan was a family of American civil cabin
sesquiplane
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aircraft developed and manufactured by the
Buhl Aircraft Company
CA-6 Airsedan ''Spokane Sun God''
The Buhl Aircraft Company was a US aircraft manufacturer founded in Detroit in 1925 which remained in operation until 1933. Buhl designed and manufactured the Buhl-Verville CA-3 Airster, the first aircraft to re ...
in the late 1920s. One example completed the first transcontinental non-stop roundtrip flight, made in 1929 by the CA-6 ''Spokane Sun-God'',
and the first
Pope
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to have flown did so in a Buhl Airsedan.
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Design and development
The Airsedan series were designed by Etienne Dormoy following the departure of Alfred V. Verville
Alfred Victor Verville (November 16, 1890 – March 10, 1970) was an American list of aviation pioneers, aviation pioneer and aircraft designer who contributed to Civil aviation, civilian and military aviation. During his forty-seven years i ...
from Buhl, with whom he had worked previously. Dormoy had worked with Deperdussin before World War I
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, flew combat operations during the war before returning to work with SPAD, travelled to the US to coordinate production of SPADs with Curtiss until the project was cancelled with the end of the war. He then worked with Packard
Packard (formerly the Packard Motor Car Company) was an American luxury automobile company located in Detroit, Michigan. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899, and the last Packards were built in South Bend, Indiana, in 1958.
One ...
on automobiles for a year in 1919 before working as a civilian with the United States Army Air Corps
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with Verville, who convinced him to work at Buhl.[Bleneau, Les berlines Buhl (Première partie), p.2-3] As a Frenchman, he was familiar with the advantages of the sesquiplane concept as it was a popular configuration in France, such as with the Breguet 26T airliner, but rare in the US.[
The fuselage framework, lower wing and ]empennage
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were welded chromium-molybdenum alloy steel tubes faired with wooden battens, with the lower wing integral with the fuselage structure.[ The upper wings were built around spruce spars, with built up ribs made from spruce and plywood. The entire airframe was covered with doped aircraft-grade fabric.][
To reduce control forces, projecting aerodynamic balance horns on rudder and elevators, while inset aerodynamic horns were used on the ailerons, which were fitted to the upper wing only.][ To provide trim control, the rudder was ground adjustable while the elevators could be adjustable in flight.][ Depending on the models, three different designs of lower wings were used - either constant chord with reversed N struts on the CA-5, a triangular wing with a vee strut on the CA-3, CA-6 and CA-8, or a constant chord wing with two rigged struts, on Canadian built CA-6Ms.
All were conventional ]sesquiplane
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s with fully enclosed cockpit
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The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the controls th ...
s, fitted with dual controls in front of a passenger cabin. The number in the designation generally referred to the number of occupants as originally designed, with a larger number of seats corresponding to a larger airframe.
The first variant built was the CA-5, while later variants had a much slimmer fuselage
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, a greatly improved windscreen design and a modified cockpit. The CA-5 had the undercarriage legs connected to the fuselage, and part way out from the fuselage, on the lower wing. The CA-3 had the undercarriage mounted solely to the fuselage, while the CA-6 and CA-8 had additional bracing struts from the top of the fuselage to the lower wing which allowed the undercarriage track to be widened. Buhl asserted that its undercarriage design reduced camber changes during landing, and the tendency to yaw due to bumpy ground. The CA-6 was certified to use Edo J-5300 floats.[Anderson, 1990, p.20]
Canadian production
After Buhl had ceased operations in 1932 due to declining sales as the Great Depression
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deepened, the drawings and jigs were purchased by the Ontario Provincial Air Service (OPAS) in Canada
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who then built four CA-6M's for use as fire spotting aircraft at their facility in Sault Ste. Marie Sault Ste. Marie may refer to:
People
* Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, a Native American tribe in Michigan
Places
* Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
** Sault Ste. Marie (federal electoral district), a Canadian federal electora ...
between 1935 and 1937. These differed from the original aircraft in having Canadian Vickers
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floats, a new fin and rudder and larger lower wings. Due to the excessive weight of the Canadian-Vickers built floats, the first Ontario Provincial Air Service
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-built CA-6M refused to leave the water until given a more powerful Pratt & Whitney Wasp
The Pratt & Whitney Wasp was the civilian name of a family of air-cooled, radial piston engines developed in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
The Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company (P&W) was founded in 1925 by Frederick B. Rentschler, who had previ ...
engine.
Operational history
A CA-5 Airsedan NC2915, dubbed ''Miss Doran'', and flown by Auggie Pedlar with V. P. Knope navigating, was one of the entrants in the disastrous August 1927 Dole Air Race
The Dole Air Race, also known as the Dole Derby, was an air race across the Pacific Ocean from Oakland, California, to Honolulu in the Territory of Hawaii held in August 1927 that resulted in several deaths.
There were eighteen official and uno ...
and like many competitors, was lost at sea.[ Two other aviators lost their lives in a Swallow monoplane while searching for them.][
A CA-3C Sport Airsedan NC7448, named ''Angelino Jr'' was piloted by Loren Mendell to first place in the Oakland-Cleveland Air Derby during the 1929 National Air Races.][
''The Angeleno'', CA-5A NR3763, also flown by Loren Mendell, along with R.B. Reinhart, set an endurance record of 246 hours, 43 minutes and 2 seconds on July 12, 1929, using inflight refuelling.][ They had just barely beaten the previous record when trash tossed from the aircraft jammed the tail and ended their run - and worse, their record would be bested within two weeks with a ]Curtiss Robin
The Curtiss Robin, introduced in 1928, is an American high-wing monoplane built by the Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Company.
The J-1 version was flown by Wrong Way Corrigan who crossed the Atlantic after being refused permission to ...
.[Parks, 2015, p.25]
Another Airsedan, a CA-6 Special NC9628 named ''Spokane Sun God'' made the first nonstop round-trip crossing the United States by air. Nick Mamer
Nicholas Bernard Mamer (1897 – January 10, 1938) was a noted American aviation pioneer and pilot in the Pacific Northwest during the 1920s and 1930s.
Early career
Mamer learned to fly in San Diego and served with the Aviation Section, U.S. ...
and Art Walker flew from Spokane, Washington
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, to New York City
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and back beginning on August 15, 1929, taking 120 hours (five days) for the trip, using inflight refueling
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.[ They covered and made eleven fuel transfers.] That was not Mamer's only connection to the Airsedans, as his airlines operated five examples in addition to the record breaking aircraft.
After having served as a technology demonstrator for Packard
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One ...
, the Packard DR-980
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Diesel powered CA-3E NC8451 was re-engined with a Wright J-6 Whirlwind and exported to Argentina
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for use by Aeroposta Argentina :''This article contains machine-translated text from the Spanish Wikipedia article Aeroposta Argentina S.A. You can help by improving this Spanish to English translation.''
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in 1931. In 1934 it made a flight over Buenos Aires
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with Cardinal Monsignor Pacelli, shortly before he was elected as Pope Pius XII
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, becoming the first Pope to have made a flight in an aircraft.
After a career spent seeking out forest fires in the northern Ontario
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bush, as an airborne counterpart to fire lookout tower
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s, the last of the Ontario Provincial Air Service CA-6Ms would be sold off to private operators in 1948.[ Their service predated the use of aircraft for directly extinguishing fires, so after spotting a fire, the Buhls would transport firemen to the fire, equipped with portable firefighting equipment, supplanting or replacing earlier types of aircraft such as the ]Curtiss HS-2L
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and Canadian Vickers Vedette
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. If this sounds laborious, aircraft replaced the canoe
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In British English, the term ' ...
s which had been used previously.
After passing through a number of owners and undergoing unspecified modifications ostensibly for movie photography, CA-6 NC9629 was seized on 9 May 1933 while smuggling of alcohol from Mexico
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during Prohibition
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near Fallbrook, California
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, by the American Immigration and Naturalization Service
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Refe ...
while the alcohol was being transferred to a waiting Marmon coupe.[Bleneau, Les berlines Buhl (Seconde et dernière partie), p.3] Prohibition would end later that same year.
Lineas Aereas del Balsas imported one CA-6 which was based out of Morelia
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for a route running between Manzanillo and Mexico City
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,[Davies, 1984, p.40] while Carlos Panini
Carlos Panini Binosi was a wealthy Mexican businessman of Italian origin, from Mosio di Acquanegra sul Chiese. He is credited with being the first pilot to fly a light plane around the world. In 1927 he had established Mexico's first scheduled air ...
eventually imported four CA-6s into Mexico for his much more successful airline. Carlos was a recent immigrant from Italy, and having taken flying lessons, started an airline in 1934, running the ''Ruta del Balsas'' (Balsas Route), along the Balsas River
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(sometimes known as the Atoyac River), in Mexico.[Davies, 1984, pp.31-32] The river lacked any bridges for over 300 miles, and communities usually travelled back and forth by boat, however, during the flood season, this became extremely hazardous.[ Beginning in September 1936, he initiated what may be the shortest commercial airline route, between ]Ciudad Altamirano
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to Coyuca de Catalán
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Formerly called Coyuca, the town was named Coyuca de Catalán in honour of Nicolás Catalán, son of Antonia Nava de Ca ...
, a distance of about , which he covered in a mere two minutes of flight time, and for which he charged 8 pesos per person.[ This was sufficiently successful that he bought three additional Buhls, and eventually expanded into a major airline.][
During the 1929 ]Escobar Rebellion
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when the Mexican government faced a large scale mutiny led by General José Gonzalo Escobar against the office of President going to a civilian, one of these Buhls was operated by the ''Fuerza Aérea Mexicana'' as a light utility transport with standard military red-white-green triangle markings.[Hagedorn, 2006, p.37] It is likely the sole example to have seen military service.
Variants
* CA-3 Airsedan (1928) - wing span
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three-seater powered by a Wright J-5 Whirlwind
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radial
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* Radius, adjective form of
* Radial distance (geometry), a directional coordinate in a polar coordinate system
* Radial set
* A ...
**CA-3A - conversion of CA-3
**CA-3B Junior Airsedan - Warner Scarab
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**CA-3C Sport Airsedan (ATC 46) - Wright J-5 Whirlwind[Juptner, 1962, p.123-124]
***CA-3CW Sport Airsedan (ATC 2-328) - Pratt & Whitney Wasp
The Pratt & Whitney Wasp was the civilian name of a family of air-cooled, radial piston engines developed in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
The Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company (P&W) was founded in 1925 by Frederick B. Rentschler, who had previ ...
**CA-3D Sport Airsedan (ATC 163, 2-72) - Wright J-6 Whirlwind[Juptner, 1964, p.179-181]
**CA-3E Sport Airsedan (ATC 2-309) - Packard DR-980
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* CA-5 Airsedan (1927, ATC 12) - wing span five-seater powered by a Wright J-5 Whirlwind[Juptner, 1962, p.44-45]
** CA-5A Airsedan (ATC 33) - Deluxe version powered with a Wright J-5 Whirlwind[Juptner, 1962, p.96-97]
* CA-6 Standard Airsedan (1929, ATC 128, 2-51) - wing span six-seater powered by a Wright J-6 Whirlwind[Juptner, 1964, p.81-84]
** CA-6 Special - Wright J-6 Whirlwind ''Spokane Sun God'' endurance aircraft
** CA-6A Airsedan - Pratt & Whitney Wasp
** CA-6B Airsedan (ATC 2-225) - Pratt & Whitney Wasp
** CA-6D Special - 2 converted from CA-3D as six seaters
** CA-6J Airsedan (ATC 2-336) - Pratt & Whitney Wasp five seater (1 converted from CA-6)
** CA-6M Airsedan - Pratt & Whitney Wasp powered Canadian-built CA-6 with local modifications. 4 built.[
** CA-6W Airsedan (ATC 2-133) - Pratt & Whitney Wasp four seater (1 converted from CA-6)
* CA-8 Senior Airsedan (1929 ATC 2-46) - wing span eight-seater powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp C
** CA-8A Senior Airsedan (ATC 98) - Wright R-1750 Cyclone 9][Juptner, 1962, p.241-242]
** CA-8B Senior Airsedan (ATC 99) - Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet
The Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet was a widely used American aircraft engine. Developed by Pratt & Whitney, 2,944 were produced from 1926 through 1942. It first flew in 1927. It was a single-row, 9-cylinder air-cooled radial design. Displaceme ...
[Juptner, 1962, p.243-244]
Operators
;
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- operated one CA-3D[
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* Brooks Construction & Transportation/Brooks Airways - operated two CA-6s][Pentland, Civil Aircraft Register - Canada (CF-), p.3]
* Cherry Red Airline - operated one CA-6[Pentland, Civil Aircraft Register - Canada (CF-), p.1]
*National Air Transport
National Air Transport was a large United States airline; in 1930 it was bought by Boeing. The Air Mail Act of 1934 prohibited airlines and manufacturers from being under the same corporate umbrella, so Boeing split into three smaller companies, o ...
- operated one CA-3C, one CA-5, and one CA-6[Pentland, Civil Aircraft Register - Canada (G-C) p.1]
* Ontario Provincial Air Service (OPAS) - operated four CA-6Ms[Pentland, Civil Aircraft Register - Canada (CF-), p.5]
;
* Lineas Aereas del Balsas operated one CA-6[Pentland, Civil Aircraft Register - Mexico, p.1]
* Servicio Aéreo Panini operated four CA-6s[
* ''Fuerza Aérea Mexicana'' operated one CA-6 during the 1929 ]Escobar Rebellion
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[
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*]Central Airlines
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operated a CA-6B
* Nick Mamer/Mamer Air Transport/Mamer Flying Service - operated one CA-3A, one CA-5A, three CA-6Bs and the CA-6 distance record aircraft[Pentland, Civil Aircraft Register - US, p.4][Pentland, Civil Aircraft Register - US, p.18]
*Various private operators.
Survivors and aircraft on display
*NC5860: The first CA-3C was built in June 1928, and was raced in the 1928 National Air Tour with Buhl markings. It underwent a major restoration that was completed in 2011.
*NC5861: The prototype CA-3, having been converted to a CA-3C, was bought back by the Buhl family in 2007 and restored to flying condition in 2012.
*NC8451: A Packard DR-980
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diesel
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* Diesel fuel, a liquid fuel used in diesel engines
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powered CA-3 currently owned by the Golden Wings Museum in Blaine, Minnesota
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, after having been restored from derelict condition as found in Argentina. This was the aircraft in which the first flight made by a Pope, Pius XII.[ Although painted as it was when it was a CA-3E, it is fitted with the Wright J-6 engine which it had when it was a CA-3D.
*CF-OAR and CF-OAT: The unrestored remains from two OPAS Buhl CA-6Ms are on display as found, at the ]Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre
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in Sault Ste. Marie Sault Ste. Marie may refer to:
People
* Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, a Native American tribe in Michigan
Places
* Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
** Sault Ste. Marie (federal electoral district), a Canadian federal electora ...
, Ontario
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.[
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Specifications (CA-6 ATC# 128)
See also
* 1927 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1927:
Events
* The United States Navys becomes the first aircraft carrier to operate a multi-engine aircraft, the twin-engine Douglas T2D-1.
* The British aircraft carrier brings Fleet Air Arm ...
* Buhl CA-1 Airster
The Buhl CA-1 Airster was a sports airplane developed in the United States in 1930. It was a conventional low-wing cantilever monoplane with fixed tailwheel undercarriage and an open cockpit for the pilot.
History
In 1930 the Buhl Aircraft C ...
* Buhl Bull Pup
The Buhl LA-1 Bull Pup was a light sports airplane developed in the United States in 1930. It was a mid-wing wire-braced monoplane with fixed Conventional landing gear, tailskid undercarriage and an open cockpit for the pilot. Buhl developed the B ...
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