Brown B-1 Racer
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| Brown B-1 Racer | |
|---|---|
 The B-1 Racer as restored postwar on display in the Wings over Miami aviation museum at Tamiami Airport, near Miami | |
| General information | |
| Type | Racing aircraft |
| National origin | United States |
| Manufacturer | Brown Aircraft Co. |
| Designer | Dan Holloway |
| Status | preserved in a museum |
| Primary user | racing pilots |
| Number built | 1 |
| History | |
| Introduction date | 1933 |
| First flight | 1933 |
| Retired | circa 1948 |
| Variants | Brown B-2 Racer Brown B-3 |
The Brown B-1 Racer was an American-built small monoplane racing aircraft of the 1930s.
The B-1 Racer was built in 1933 by the Brown Aircraft Co. of Montebello, California, which had been founded by Lawrence W. Brown, previously of Clover Field, Santa Monica, California.
The B-1 was designed by Dean Holloway and was intended for competitive flying at the hands of Ralph Bushey. The diminutive aircraft was a low-winged monoplane with an open single-person cockpit and a fixed tail-skid undercarriage.[1]
