Granville Brothers Aircraft - Aircraft

Aircraft

The Granville Brothers built only 24 aircraft. Only two original aircraft are known to exist.

• Model A biplane (nine built, one survives at the New England Air Museum).
• Model X Sportster flown in the Cirrus Derby (one built, crashed September 1931, Roscoe Brinton bailed out.)
• Model B Sportster with a Warner radial engine (one built, rumored to have been used in the Spanish Civil War, still flying in late 1940s in Spain)
• Model C Sportster, Menasco inline engine (one built, destroyed at an air show crash in Jersey City, New Jersey October 25, 1931)
• Model D Sportster with in-line Menasco Engine (one built, crashed July 1936, pilot Channing Seabury killed bailing out)
• Model E Sportsters with Warner radial engine (four built, all destroyed)

1. Crashed February 1934, Z.D. Granville killed, Spartanburg, South Carolina.
2. Crashed August 1932, Russell Boardman suffered a bad concussion
3. Crashed February 14, 1931 airshow at Candler Field Atlanta. Johnny Kytle killed
4. Destroyed in crash. The wing is at the EAA AirVenture Museum

• Model Y Senior Sportster, (two built, both destroyed)

1. Warner radial, prop came apart and the plane spun in
2. Lycoming test bed, later fitted with a Wright Whirlwind. Florence Klingensmith killed in 1933 National Air Races crash.

• Model Z Super Sportster — Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" powered, 1931 Thompson Trophy winner (one built, destroyed December 5, 1931, Lowell Bayles killed)
• Model R-1 Super Sportster — Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" powered, 1932 Thompson Trophy and Shell Speed Dash winner, Jimmy Doolittle pilot. (one built, destroyed July 1, 1933, Russell Boardman killed)
• Model R-2 Super Sportster — Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" powered, (one built, destroyed late 1933, Jimmy Haizlip injured)
• Model R-1/2 Super Sportster — Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" powered, built from remains of the R1 and R2 (one built, destroyed 1935, Cecil Allen killed)
• Gee Bee Model Q — Aeronca powered tractor canard built to test configuration (one built, crashed 24 December 1931, Mark Granville injured)
• Gee Bee Q.E.D. — Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" powered (one built, crashed June 7, 1939, Francisco Sarabia killed, plane rebuilt and retired to a museum in Ciudad Lerdo, Durango, Mexico)