Stinson Junior

The Stinson Junior was a high-wing monoplane built by the Stinson Aircraft Company between 1928 and 1933 for private owners and small commercial operators, and one of the first such designs with a fully enclosed cabin. Stinson reworked the six-seat SM-1 Detroiter, which was too large for private buyers, into the SM-2 Junior with shorter wings, a shorter fuselage and a choice of smaller engines, beginning with a 110 horsepower Warner Scarab. The first SM-2 flew in mid-1928. The design grew into the more powerful SM-7 and the four-seat SM-8, and the Junior R of 1932 added a deeper fuselage and a low stub wing that carried the undercarriage and struts. A total of 321 Juniors were built, and 27 of them survived in 2001.