General Aviation XFA

General Aviation XFA
XFA-1
Type:	carrier-based fighter
Design country:	United States
Manufacturer:	General Aviation Corporation
First flight:	March 1932
Number of pieces:	1

The General Aviation XFA (US-Fokker Model 18) was a carrier-based fighter aircraft made by the US manufacturer General Aviation Corporation in the 1930s.

history

In May 1929 General Motors (GM) took over 41% of the shares in the Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America , after which the name was changed to General Aviation Corporation a year later . The original US-Fokker model number sequence was continued up to the Model 18 (XFA). At the end of 1934, General Motors merged its General Aviation Corp. with North American Aviation, also controlled by GM .

The XFA was developed in connection with a tender competition of the United States Navy , in which the design was in competition with the Berlin-Joyce XFJ-1 and Curtiss XF9C-1 . The Navy carried out the testing of the prototype in March 1932, but it was not very successful, so further development was discontinued.

construction

The XFA-1 was a single-handled biplane with staggered wings, the upper surface was designed as a Puławski wing . The metal construction had fabric-covered wings and tail surfaces. The proposed armament should include two 7.62 mm machine guns installed in the fuselage.

Technical specifications

Parameter	Data
crew	1
length	6.75 m
span	7.77 m
height	2.82 m
Wing area	16.26 m 2
Empty mass	833 kg
Takeoff mass	1138 kg
Top speed	273 km / h
Ascent time (at 1525 m)	3.4 min
Range	600 km
Engines	a Pratt & Whitney R-985A Wasp Junior with 400 hp

See also

• List of aircraft types

literature

• Fighter A to Z . In AIR International, May 1980, p. 253
• John M. Andrade: US Military Aircraft Designations and Serials , Midland Counties Publ., 1979

Web links

Commons : General Aviation XFA  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Photo and short history

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bart van der Klaauw: Fokker's American Heydays . In: AIR Enthusiast No.68, March / April 1997, p. 10
2. ↑ AIR International 5/1980, p. 253