Curtiss-Wright Travel Air CW-12Q Sport Trainer were high-performance training aircraft. G-AAOK built 1929
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G-AAOK is a CURTISS-WRIGHT AIRCRAFT CORPORATION Type:TRAVEL AIR 12Q Built 1929 CW-12Q - version powered by Wright-built de Havilland Gipsy (26 built) The Travel Air Manufacturing Company was an aircraft manufacturer established in Wichita, Kansas, United States in January 1925 by Clyde Cessna, Walter Beech, and Lloyd Stearman. The Curtiss-Wright CW-12 Sport Trainer and CW-16 Light Sport (also marketed under the Travel Air brand that Curtiss-Wright had recently acquired) were high-performance training aircraft designed by Herbert Rawdon and Ted Wells and built in the United States in the early 1930s. The CW-12 and CW-16 shared the same basic design as conventional single-bay biplanes with staggered wings braced with N-struts. The pilot and instructor sat in tandem, open cockpits, the forward cockpit of the CW-12 having a single seat, while the CW-16's forward cockpit could seat two passengers side-by-side. Both versions of the aircraft were available in a variety of engine choices, and some CW-16s were exported as trainers to the air forces of Bolivia and Ecuador. G-AAOK is owned by SHIPPING AND AIRLINES LTD HANGAR 513, BIGGIN HILL AIRPORT BIGGIN HILL WESTERHAM TN16 3BN