Barkley-Grow T8P-1
The Barkley -Grow T8P -1 was a twin-engine transport aircraft from the U.S. manufacturer Barkley -Grow from Detroit. The few models produced before the Second World War were primarily used in Canada as bush planes.
History
1937 founded the aircraft designer Archibald Barkley along with Harold the Grow to build Barkley -Grow Aircraft designed by himself a small civilian aircraft.
The Barkley -Grow T8P -1 was designed as a low-wing monoplane designed and all metal construction. It had a double, in some instances even triple vertical stabilizer. Is no longer appropriate was the suspension, which could be move only partially. When driving two Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior radial engines were used. In the plane, two pilots and up to six passengers could be accommodated.
As the competing models Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior and Beech 18 corresponded to the T8P -1 as prepared by the Bureau of Air Commerce in 1935 specifications. The first flight she completed in April 1937, too late to get the hoped-for state support.
After all only eleven aircraft were sold, gave up the two founders and sold the company to Avco (later Vultee Aircraft).
Use
The sales figures in the U.S. were disappointing. Of the eleven copies built, most were sold to Canada, since the rigid chassis for attaching swimmers and runners suitable.
To date, two aircraft survived, one of them in the Aero Space Museum in Calgary, the other in the Alberta Aviation Museum.