Sunday, November 25, 2018

Parks P-2 Biplane

The American Heritage History of Flight, published by American Heritage Publishing, 1962

Oliver Parks bought the rights to the Kreider-Reisner sport plane in the late 20s in order to start an airline, aircraft factory and flying school. Parks built more than 40 of these airplanes, powered by the WW1 surplus Curtis OX-5 engine, which was still available as surplus at that time. 
A development of the plane was the Wright radial engined Parks P2, shown above. Sixteen were built before Parks got out of manufacturing, selling the plane to Ryan and it became the Ryan Speedster.
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8 comments:

  1. tonyand03November 25, 2018 at 2:29 PM

    Fairly sure that's the Parks owned by Richard Bach and featured in his book "Biplane".
    Tony

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  2. Mister GNovember 27, 2018 at 9:05 PM

    I believe you are correct. http://pdstwr.blogspot.com/2012/07/biplane.html

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  3. The MaestroAugust 4, 2019 at 2:52 PM

    Exactly my first thought. NC499H is the number of Richard Bach's biplane.

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  4. UnknownDecember 2, 2019 at 3:52 PM

    You can find photographs of this plane in his book "Nothing by chance"

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  5. Zac "Handbag" YatesNovember 10, 2020 at 4:18 PM

    Mister G, where did you find this photo? It's about the best air-to-air shot of N499H in the Biplane-era paint scheme and I love it!

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  6. Mister GNovember 10, 2020 at 4:30 PM

    Not sure! I'll look through my old book collection and see if I can find it.

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  7. Zac "Handbag" YatesApril 12, 2024 at 5:10 AM

    Hey Mister G! Did you ever manage to find a source for this lovely photo? I'm working on an article about N499H and would love to be able to use it.

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  8. Mister GApril 19, 2024 at 1:52 PM

    I did! Just found it in a box of surplus books, that didn't quite make it out the door. It's from "The American Heritage History of Flight", published by American Heritage Publishing, 1962 but no photo credit given, though there is a note that mentions that US copyright is not claimed for a list of photos, the Parks photo included.

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