Marske Pioneer II
The first Pioneer flew in 1968. The design features a fixed monowheel landing gear, wings of wood and fabric, and a fuselage of fiberglass. The wingspan measured 42.64 feet to allow the wings to be built in a standard 20-foot deep garage. Bernie Gross working on his aircraft The roll control utilized conventional ailerons, with […]
Marketello Stahltaube (Steel Dove)
The aircraft on display here at the museum (N1381N) is a flyable ¾ scale model of the original that was designed and built by Ignaz Etrich an Austro-Hungarian engineer. Joel A. Marketello built our museum aircraft and equipped it with a Continental A50 (50 HP) engine. The documents the museum received with this aircraft indicate […]
Globe Swift
The Globe Aircraft Corporation was originally formed as the Bennett Aircraft Corporation with the intention of manufacturing airplanes from Duraloid, a phenol-formaldehyde Bakelite-bonded plywood. In 1941 the company was reorganized and the name was changed to Globe Aircraft Corporation. The first product of the re-constituted company was a small two-seat low-wing cabin monoplane known as […]
Bowlus/Nelson BB-1 Dragonfly
The Dragonfly is an American, two-seat, strut-braced, high wing, motorized glider developed from the Bowlus BA-100 Baby Albatross glider which was also designed by William Hawley Bowlus. If you look at the two aircraft you will see the similarities. The obvious external difference between the two is the addition of the pusher engine and […]