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The Barkley-Grow Aircraft Corporation was a US aircraft manufacturer established by Archiebald St Clair Barkley and Captain Harold Barkley Grow in Detroit in 1936 to produce a small civil transport which incorporated Barkley's patented wing design, the Barkley-Grow T8P-1. [1] [ failed verification ]
Initially purchased by the General American Transportation Corporation in 1939, the company was bought by AVCO only a year later in 1940. [2] [3] Meanwhile, Roland A. Freeman the former chief of the experimental division, founded his own company in Santa Monica, California. [4] The Barkley-Grow factory at the Detroit City Airport was seized by the city after a short dispute with Vultee, and turned into an aviation technical high school in 1943. [5] [6]
A Barkley-Grow seaplane went to Antarctica in 1939 on board the USS Bear to support the United States Antarctic Service Expedition under the supervision of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd.
| Model name | First flight | Number built | Type |
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| Barkley-Grow T8P-1 | 1937 | 11 | Twin engine transport monoplane |
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