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Northrop Alpha - NASA Photo
Role Transport
Manufacturer Northrop
Designer John K. Northrop
First flight 1930
Introduction April 20, 1931
Retired 1975 to Smithsonian Institution
Primary users Transcontinental & Western Air
US Army Air Corps
Number built 17[1]
Variants Northrop Gamma
C-19 Alpha

The Northrop Alpha is an American single-engine, all-metal, seven-seat, low-wing monoplane fast mail/passenger transport aircraft used in the 1930s. Design work was done at the Avion Corporation, which in 1929, became the Northrop Aircraft Corporation based in Burbank, California.[1]

  1. ^ a b Eden and Moeng 2002, pp. 74–77.

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