The Northrop Gamma is a single-engine all-metal monoplane cargo aircraft used in the 1930s. Towards the end of its service life, it was developed into the A-17 light bomber.
Northrop 2B Gamma Polar Star
The Polar Star on display at the National Air and Space Museum
Workers at the CAMCO plant at the Jianqiao Aerodrome standing before the assembly of a Gamma 2E; circa 1936
Jacqueline Cochran's Northrop Gamma 2G with Curtiss Conqueror V-12 engine
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, whic
Northrop Gamma
…in the 1930s. Towards the end of its service life, it was developed into the A-17 light bomber. The Gamma was a further development of the successful Northrop Alpha and shared its predecessor's aerodynamic innovations with wing fillets and multicellular stressed-skin wing construction. Like late Alphas, the fixed…
Northrop Alpha - NASA Photo
Alpha in TWA colors on display at the National Air and Space Museum