Travel Air was taken over by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation in 1929 and this company merged with the Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Company in 1930 to form the Curtiss-Wright Airplane Company. This company continued to build the Travel Air series and strictly speaking these should be designated Curtiss- Wright Travel Airs. To many they are still Travel Airs and we have decided to include them with the other Travel Air types. The Travel Air 12-W, also known as the Sport Trainer, was a sporting or training biplane and was also available as the Model 12-Q (27 built) powered by a 90hp(67kW) Wright inline engine and which had a maximum take-off weight of 1725lb(783kg). A very small number remain airworthy.

N439W                    c/n 2005                       USA

2 seat biplane first flown in 1931