The pictures on this page were previously listed as “unknowns”.  Recently, I got an email from John Boyce who was nice enough to educate me about these “unknowns”.  I said I’d credit him with the caveat that John, “....thinks it is..." or "....says it sure looks like a...."

Aeronca "K".  The engine appears to be an original Aeronca E-113 two-cylinder of 25 to 35 hp (approximately) depending on the model

John went on to say, “NC16135 is a Stinson Reliant, SR 7, I think, the "Gull Wing" Stinson.  Unusual wing...the mail spar was a steel tube Warren truss.”

And again from John, “The last picture is of a Bellanca.  Guiseppe Bellanca believed that every horizontal surface should produce lift, hence the shape of the struts.  The fuselage, too.”

The name, “Aeronca” made me recall a story my father had told.  At some point in his career at Port Washington, he had ferried an Aeronca down to Florida for someone.  He said the weather was horrible and that he had lost his coffee thermos overboard due to turbulence.  He could see cars on the highway below making better progress than he was in his little plane.

At some point, he was forced to put down at a Naval base due to lack of fuel. The refueling crew came back and told the CO that the little plane wouldn’t take any fuel.  Long story short, the fuel pumps used by the Navy didn’t read low enough to register the small amount of gas the little Aeronca took.

Below is a similar Aeronca in Palm Beach.

Thank you John!