NICO BRAAS MEMORIAL COLLECTION
No. 5688. ICAR Universal (YR-CGS)
Photographed at Waalhaven Airport, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, source unknown

ICAR Universal

09/15/2006. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "This was a single-seat aerobatic version of the two-seat basic type, note the front seat being faired over.

Three two-seat Universals made a ca. 13,670 mls (22,000 km) trip from Bucharest, Romania to Capetown, South Africa and back between April 14 and May 25, 1935. The crew members for this flight were Alexandru Cernescu, Mihail Pantazi, George Davidescu, Gheorghe Olteanu, Anton Stengher and Gheorghe Jienescu.

ICAR = Intreprinderea de Constructii Aeronautice Romanesti (Enterprise for Romanian Aeronautical Constructions)."


Created September 15, 2006