Operational History
The Globe/TEMCO Swift has seen many modifications. The Swift was originally powered by a C-85 85 hp (63 kW) engine driving a Beech Roby wooden propeller. Within a year the engine was upgraded to a C-125, again turning an Aeromatic propeller. Performance had been marginal with 85 hp (63 kW), and only moderate with 125 hp (93 kW), so many owners have installed more powerful engines, from 145 to 210 hp (108 to 157 kW).
The most unusual variant of the series became a separate design, the TEMCO TE-1 Buckaroo which was built in a short-run first as a contender for a USAF trainer aircraft contract, and was later transferred to foreign service as a military trainer. Several of these trainers have since returned to the civil market.
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