Spartan 12W

Spartan 12W Executive
Spartan 12W Executive
Role	Personal luxury transport
National origin	United States
Manufacturer	Spartan Aircraft Company
First flight	circa 1946
Status	only one prototype completed
Produced	circa 1946
Number built	one
Developed from	Spartan Executive

The Spartan 12W Executive was a tricycle gear post-war development of the Spartan 7W Executive, produced by the Spartan Aircraft Company. The 12W was intended to have higher performance and be more economical than the 7W.

The Spartan 12W Executive features magnesium alloy wings and tail surfaces and range extending wing tip-tanks. The magnesium alloy skin quickly corroded and was replaced with aluminum alloy. The tip-tanks were also removed. The sole example was owned by Spartan Aircraft and employed at their flight training school.

After building just one model 12W the manufacturer moved on to focus on constructing travel-trailers instead and lost interest in luxury aircraft.

The sole Spartan 12W Executive produced was restored in 1967 and is on static display at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium.

Data from Eckland

General characteristics

Performance

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