Swearingen Merlin

Credit: B&CA file photo/E. Jones
In the early 1960s, Ed Swearingen was in the modifications business, but he longed to start his own line of aircraft. He envisioned three families of aircraft that would share the same fuselage cross section and many systems. The Merlin I would be a piston twin, powered by two new 400-hp geared...

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