Cessna C-34 Airmaster

The Cessna C-34 Airmaster was the first of the Airmaster family of single-engined, high-wing cabin aircraft that Cessna built in the 1930s, and the family helped revive the company after the Great Depression crushed the aviation industry. Dwane Wallace, nephew of founder Clyde Cessna and a recent aeronautical engineering graduate, is credited with the design of the C-34, which first flew in June 1935 as a four-seat cabin aircraft with a 145 horsepower Warner Super Scarab radial engine; 42 were built. Wider-cabin C-37 and C-38 versions followed, then the C-145 and C-165, of which 80 were built, and some were impressed into United States Army Air Forces service as UC-77 and UC-94 transports. The wooden wings, fabric covering and tubular steel fuselage grew too costly as World War II began, and all-aluminium designs replaced the line.