REARWIN

Rearwin Airplanes Inc. established by Ray Rearwin (whose sons were Kenneth and Royce) at Kansas City April 1928. Hired Fred Landgraf as designer, producing Rearwin Ken-Royce 2000C 3-seat biplane, about 12 built with various 165—170-hp engines. Dug Webber and Noel Hockaday designed Junior 3000 parasol monoplane, handful of versions during Depression. Sportster 2-seat high-wing cabin monoplane (30 April 1935) led to about 350 of several versions, which funded derived Speedster, Cloudster and Ranger, built in fair numbers. Taken over 1935 by partnership which in 1937 bought assets of Le Blond Aircraft Engine Corp., these engines being renamed Ken-Royce. Rearwin sold out 1942 to Commonwealth.

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