Rearwin Cloudster

Cloudster
Rearwin 8135
Role Utility aircraft
National origin United States
Manufacturer Rearwin
Designer Robert Rummell
First flight 1939
Number built 125


The Rearwin Cloudster was a civil utility aircraft produced in the United States in 1939.[1][2] It was a strut-braced, high-wing monoplane of conventional design with an enclosed cabin and fixed, tailskid undercarriage.[2]

It was a larger and more powerful derivative of the Rearwin Sportster with the 8090 and 8125 models having side-by-side seating instead of the Sportster's tandem seating. The 8135 Cloudster had three seats.[3]

Twenty examples were produced with tandem seating for Pan Am to use as trainers,[1][2] and another 25 Cloudsters were exported as trainers to Iran.[2]

Variants

8135 Cloudster at New England Air Museum, Bradley Locks, CT
Cloudster 8090
Version with Ken-Royce 5F 90 h.p. engine - two seat
Cloudster 8125
Version with Ken-Royce 7F 125 h.p. engine - two seat
Cloudster 8135
Version with Ken-Royce 7G 125 h.p engine - three seat
Cloudster 8135T
Tandem version of Cloudster 8135 for Pan Am
Rearwin C-102
A Cloudster 8135 impressed by the US Army Air Force as the UC-102A.

Specifications (8135)

Data from "Rearwin Cloudster"

General characteristics

Performance


References

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Notes
  1. 1 2 Taylor 1989, 757
  2. 1 2 3 4 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft p.2792
  3. Green, 1965, p. 290
Bibliography
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