Stinson Model W

The Stinson Model W was a four-seat, high-wing cabin monoplane of 1931, a deluxe version of the Stinson Junior built by the Stinson Aircraft Company. Aerofiles lists it with a 300 horsepower Pratt and Whitney Wasp Junior engine, a span of 42 feet 1 inch, a length of 30 feet 10 inches and a price of 8,995 dollars. The American Aviation Historical Society production notes describe it as the same as the SM-7A Junior with minor changes, and count five built under type certificate 435, serial numbers 3050 to 3054. Aerofiles and the Centennial of Flight Commission date it to 1931, while the production notes give 1932 as its year of production. The Centennial of Flight essay names the Model W, with the 1932 Model R-2/3, as one of the two designs that led to the Reliant. One example, serial 3054, survives at the Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum in Hood River, Oregon.