New Era Model A

{{Short description|1930s American civil aircraft}}

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The '''New Era Model A''' was a two-seater pusher monoplane, dating from the early 1930s.<ref name=BOEING/>

==Design and development== The New Era Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1929 by brothers Don and Forest Fogle of Butler, Pennsylvania. They built two aircraft, the first of which was the Model A.

The aircraft featured a small fully enclosed pod fuselage and had a twin boom layout. The monoplane wing had a tapered planform with rounded wingtips. The wing's trailing edge had a recessed cutout at the rear of the fuselage, in order to accommodate the pusher propeller. Struts from the fixed undercarriage braced the monoplane wing and also the tail-booms. There was a cruciform tail. The aircraft was given the registration X10778, and then NC10778.<ref name=BOEING/><ref name=AIRHISTORY/>

==Operational history== The Model A first flew in 1931.<ref name=AIRHISTORY/> On April 22, 1932, when the aircraft was taxying over rough terrain, the tailbooms broke.<ref name=AEROFILES/> The aircraft was not rebuilt.

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==References== <references>

<ref name=AEROFILES>{{cite web |last=Eckland |first=E.O |title=American airplanes: New Era |url=http://www.aerofiles.com/_n.html |website=www.aerofiles.com |publisher=Aerofiles |access-date=March 1, 2026}}</ref>

<ref name=AIRHISTORY>{{cite web |last= |first= |title=Civil Aircraft Register - United States |url=http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_N23.html |website=www.airhistory.net |publisher=Golden Years of Aviation |access-date=March 1, 2026}}</ref>

<ref name=BOEING>{{cite magazine |last= |first= |date=August 1982 |title=He Built His Own Wings | magazine=Boeing News |location=Seattle, WA| publisher=Public Relations Department, Boeing Aircraft Company |volume=XII |number=8 |page=7 |url=https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/Boeing_Magazine/L3IPAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA7-PA7&printsec=frontcover}}</ref>

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Category:1930s United States civil aircraft Category:Twin-boom aircraft Category:High-wing aircraft Category:Aircraft first flown in 1931 Category:Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear Category:Cruciform tail aircraft Category:Single-engined pusher aircraft