Rawdon Brothers Aircraft

Herb Rawdon had been the chief designer of Travel Air, and later Beech Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.

It was a single-engine twin-seat side-by-side open cockpit low-wing training monoplane powered by a 75 h.p.

[1] The R-1 was not accepted as a trainer by the U.S. Army Air Corps and it was modified as a crop spraying aircraft.

[2] It was a tandem-seat closed cockpit low-wing monoplane, powered by Lycoming engines of between 125 h.p and 150 h.p.

The T-1 was built in five versions and was used for training, crop spraying, aerial advertising and other utility roles.