Travel Air A-6000A – Early airborne darling of executives

This rare A-6000A, now owned by Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California, soars over the Arizona landscape. You can generally spot any Travel Air product by the shape of its tail and the robust, ready-to-carry-anything airframe. Small airlines like Scenic Airways loved them.

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The time they formed the company, 1925, was a heady period to be in aviation. Advancements were made almost daily, the most important being a whole new series of more reliable, more powerful engines: radials from Wright and Pratt & Whitney helped fuel the new designs. Travel Air initially produced a series of big, three-place open biplanes but quickly started on a new concept: a high-wing, fully enclosed monoplane capable of carrying four passengers. The...

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