My baby biplane!

It's a Smith DSA-1, Tail # N1321

DSA-1 stands for "Damn Small Airplane - Single Seat"

Designed by the late Frank Smith of Fullerton, Calif., who built and flew the first one in 1956, it is commonly known as a "Smith Miniplane."

In 1970, Bud Davisson wrote: "The Smith Miniplane is right out of the back of every pilot's mind. It flies in the margins of notebooks and lands on the backs of napkins. We've all doodled something similar when our subconscious takes over and the "perfect" airplane flows out of the pencil. I'm sure, at one time or other, most of us have thought about our own personal little biplane. We've all dreamed, but somehow not many of us get past the doodling stage. Frank Smith did."

N1321 is a fully aerobatic, open cockpit, 80 hp fun machine that's an absolute blast to fly. It has a 17-ft. wing span and is only 5-1/2 ft. tall and 15-1/2 ft. long. (It's approximately 5 inches shorter and narrower than a Pitts Special.) Its 17 gallons of fuel are sipped at just over 4 gallons per hour giving it a range in excess of 400 miles. N1321 was built with a variable pitch trim system and "I" struts instead of the original "N" struts giving it additional strength and less drag.

N1321 is Powered by a Franklin 4AC-176-F3 4-cylinder engine producing 80hp @ 2500 rpm

SPEEDS: Cruise--110 mph; Top Speed level flight--120 mph; Stall--50 mph
Takeoff Run--450ft; Landing Roll--400 ft.; Rate of Climb--1000 fpm

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