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IN HISTORY
A Rare Travel Air: The Type BH/3000
In 1926 the Travel Air Manufacturing Company offered pilots the “Type BH” biplane powered by the superb Hispano-Suiza V-8 engine.
by Edward H. Philips
20 • KING AIR MAGAZINE
AUGUST 2020
In an effort to expand the Travel Air Manufacturing Company’s product line, Walter Beech and the engineering department mated the proven Type “B” airframe with the war-surplus Hispano-Suiza engine rated at 180 horsepower. Following the end of World War I, supplies of the “Hisso,” as it was commonly called, were available to buyers, but to keep prices as low as possible Travel Air offered their ships with the inexpensive and ubiquitous Curtiss OX-5 and OXX-6 engines rated at 90- and 100-horspeower, respectfully.
