Stinson Reliant

The Stinson Reliant was a single-engine, four- to five-seat, high-wing monoplane built from 1933 by the Stinson Aircraft Division of the Aviation Manufacturing Corporation at Wayne, Michigan. A total of 1,327 Reliants were made between 1933 and 1941, in models from the SR-1 to the SR-10, with radial engines from Lycoming, Wright and Pratt and Whitney. The straight-wing models up to the SR-6 had a constant-chord wing braced by struts, while the gull-wing models from the SR-7 on had a tapered wing carried on a single strut. Operators included airlines in Brazil and Mexico and the New York City Police Department aviation unit. The United States Army Air Forces flew impressed examples as the UC-81 and the militarized version as the AT-19, which the Royal Navy used as the Reliant I, and after the war surplus aircraft were sold as the Vultee V-77.