Operational History
The Dayton-Wright OW.1 was refitted with a 150 hp Packard 8, and later equipped with an 180 hp Wright-Hisso E inline engine. The OW.1 set an altitude record of 19,710 ft (6,010 m) on 22 May 1921, flown by Dayton-Wright test pilot Bernard L. Whelan, and accompanied by three mechanics as passengers. The Aerial Coupe reached the record altitude after a 2 hr, 31 min flight over USAAC Test Center at McCook Field in Dayton, Ohio.
Whelan and Howard Rinehart (another company test pilot) set up the Rinehart-Whelan Company at Moraine City, Ohio, and acquired the Aerial Coupe in 1923. A year later, John Montijo, a former Army instructor from Long Beach, California purchased the aircraft, and used parts from it to rebuild a Hall-Scott L-6.
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