Ten examples were built, but they only entered limited commercial service; their high cost and problems with the cooling of the aft engines proved prohibitive.

The aircraft came down on a house in nearby Carle Place, and was totally destroyed in the crash and subsequent fire.

[2] This crash was witnessed by famous American poet Ogden Nash, who wrote of it to his then-fiancée Frances (later his wife).

The aft propellers, working in the disturbed air from the front, were inefficient, and their engines suffered from cooling problems.

However, despite the painting of a prototype for Universal, they cancelled their order, and WAE only picked up two instead of the planned five, largely because of the Great Depression.