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Item Description
One person, 30 minute flight in this vintage Grumman AA-1 Yankee two-seat.
Piloted by Air Force Pilot Ken Dromgold.
Flight will take off from Barnes Municipal Airfield in Westfield, MA. Time and date of flight to be determined by pilot and winner of auction item.
The Yankee aircraft was originally designed in 1962 by Jim Bede and was intended to be sold as a kit-built aircraft. The prototype first flew on July 11, 1963 and featured folding wings for trailering and ease of storage. Bede formed a company, Bede Aviation Corporation, based in Cleveland Ohio, to produce the aircraft, but the BD-1 never entered production as a certified aircraft. At that time the FAA was hesitant to certify a light aircraft with folding wings. The certification process was complex and expensive and disagreements arose between Bede and the other shareholders. American's engineers reworked the wing to a non-folding design, easing FAR Part 23 certification. Other changes included adding extended wing tips to improve rate-of-climb, an anti-servo tab on the elevator along with a centering spring system to increase longitudinal stability and stall strips to improve handling during a stall. The company designated the redesigned aircraft the AA-1 Yankee Clipper.
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