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

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

Crew: One pilot
Capacity: 1–2 passengers

Performance

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b Taylor 1989, 757
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft p.2792
^ Green, 1965, p. 290

Bibliography

Green, William (1965). The Aircraft of the World. Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft. London: Aerospace Publishing.
"Rearwin Cloudster". Rearwin Airplanes (copy cached by Google). Retrieved 2009-01-25.
Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions.

[JEA-1] Taylor 1989, 757

[IEA-2] The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft p.2792

[3] Green, 1965, p. 290

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