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Granville Gee Bee Sportster information


Sportster
Gee Bee Model E Sportster replica
Role Sports plane
National origin United States of America
Manufacturer Granville Brothers
Designer Robert Hall
First flight 1930
Number built 8

The Gee Bee Sportster was a family of sports aircraft built in the United States in the early 1930s by the Granville Brothers. They were low-wing strut- and wire-braced monoplanes of conventional, if short-coupled, design, with open cockpits and fixed, tailskid undercarriage.

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