{{short description|Early biplane}} {{Infobox aircraft |name=Arrow Sport |image=Arrow Sport Lakeland FL 18.04.07R.jpg |caption=Arrow Sport of 1927 at Lakeland, Florida, in April 2007 |type=Sports plane |manufacturer=Arrow Aircraft and Motors |designer=Sven Swanson |first_flight=1926 |introduction= |retired= |status= |primary_user= |more_users= |produced= |number_built=ca. 100 |variants= }} The '''Arrow Sport''' is a two-seat sporting biplane aircraft built in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.

==Design and construction== The plane was designed by Swen Swanson and it was of largely conventional configuration with tailskid undercarriage, but was interesting in that the pilot and passenger sat side by side in the open cockpit, and because as originally designed, the fully cantilever wings lacked interplane struts – the upper wing attaching directly to the top of the fuselage. This latter feature proved so alarming to many prospective pilots that the manufacturer later supplied N-type struts that were of no real function other than to allay the aviators' fears.

==Variants== * '''Sport''' – Two-seat sporting biplane, powered by a 60-hp (45-kW) LeBlond radial piston engine. * '''Sport 85''' – 85&nbsp;hp Leblond radial, extra four degrees of dihedral on lower wing.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Popular Aviation|date=July 1931|page=15}}</ref> * '''Sport A2''' ** '''Sport A2-40''' ** '''Sport A2-60''' {{cvt|60|hp|kW}} LeBlond radial engines ** '''Sport A2-66''' ** '''Sport A2-90 Tangerine''' ** '''Sport A2-100''' {{cvt|100|hp|kW}} Kinner C-5<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Zenith Z-6-B|journal= Aero Digest|date= September 1931|page=68}}</ref> * '''Sport Pursuit''' (renamed '''Sport K''' in 1935) – Improved version, powered by a 100-hp (75-kW) Kinner K-5 radial engine. * '''Sport V-8''' (renamed the '''Model F''') – Two-seat monoplane version, powered by a converted {{cvt|82|hp|kW}} Ford V8 automobile engine. ** '''Sport M''' – Model F with a {{cvt|125|hp|kW}} Menasco C-4 Pirate engine.<ref>[https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?make=ARROW&model_group=NO+MODEL+GROUP&model=SPORT&listing_id=2281088&s-type=aircraft Trade-a-Plane: "1938 Arrow Sport M"]</ref>

==Surviving aircraft== [[File:20180328 Arrow Sport A2-60 Udvar-Hazy 2.jpg|thumb|An Arrow Sport A2-60 at the Udvar-Hazy Center.]] [[File:Arrow Sport, Lincoln Airport, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.jpg|thumb|Arrow Sport at the Lincoln Airport, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA]] Nine biplane Sports remain registered in the United States as of 2020, mostly in museums and private collections,<ref>[https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/MakeModelInquiry FAA Registration Query]</ref> including: * a Sport Pursuit (N8181, serial 432) preserved in the terminal building of the Lincoln Airport in Nebraska, Arrow's city of manufacture, and owned by the Nebraska State Historical Society. * a Sport (N530A, serial 304) preserved at the Dakota Territory Air Museum in North Dakota.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/north-dakota-residents-rebuild-and-model-biplane-for-museum/|title=North Dakota residents rebuild and model biplane for museum|date=December 1, 2017|newspaper=Seattle Times|first=Eloise|last=Ogden}}</ref> * a Sport A2-60 (ex-N9325/G-AARO, serial 341) preserved at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.<ref>Ogden, 2007, p. 572</ref><ref>[https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/arrow-sport-a2-60/nasm_A19870076000 Smithsonian: "Arrow Sport A2-60"]</ref> * a Sport Pursuit (N853H, serial 412) is on display at the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum in Oregon.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.waaamuseum.org/collections/airplanes/206-Arrow-Sport-%22Pursuit%22|title=Arrow Sport "Pursuit"|date=May 17, 2026}}</ref>

==Specifications (A2-60) == {{Aircraft specs |ref=American airplane specifications<ref>''Aviation'' January 1932, pp. 47, 50.</ref><!-- the reference for the data given --> |prime units?=imp<!-- "imp", "kts" or "met" to display the units in a given order. Without an entry here, no specifications will show --> <!-- General characteristics --> |genhide=

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==See also== {{aircontent |related= |similar aircraft= *Warren CP-2 |sequence= |lists= |see also= }}

==References== ;Notes {{reflist}} ;Bibliography {{refbegin}} *{{cite magazine|title=American airplane specifications |magazine= Aviation |date= January 1932 |volume= 31|issue= 1|pages= 47–51 |url-access=registration |url= http://archive.aviationweek.com/issue/19320101#!&pid=46}}

*{{cite magazine |title=Zenith Z-6-B|journal= Aero Digest|date= September 1931|volume=19 |issue=3 |page=68|url=https://archive.org/details/aerodigest1919unse/page/n351/mode/2up}}

*{{cite book|last=Ogden|first=Bob|title=Aviation Museums and Collections of North America|year=2007|publisher=Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd|isbn=978-0-85130-385-7}}

* {{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London |pages=81 }} {{refend}}

==External links== {{commons category|Arrow Sport}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070610183245/http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/arrowsport.htm Arrow Sport A2-60 – National Air and Space Museum] * [http://aviation-history.com/garber/vg-bldg/arrow_sport-1_c.html Arrow Sport – Aviation History Online Museum]

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