The article features a 1946 ERCO 415-C Ercoupe as "Today's Top Pick," an aircraft originally designed for enhanced safety in the 1930s by Fred Weick. The Ercoupe is distinguished by its unique ...

Today's Top Pick is a 1947 ERCO 415-D Ercoupe, available for $18,500, featuring 2,318 airframe hours and 509 engine hours. Designed by Fred Weick to simplify flight and make it more like driving, the ...

Click to open image viewer. The ERCO 415 Ercoupe was a response to the Bureau of Air Commerce's sponsored design competition during the mid-1930s for an easy-to-fly, safe airplane. Designed by Fred ...

“If you can drive a car, you can fly an airplane.” ERCO began selling the spin-proof Ercoupe from department stores in 1945 by marketing the vision that every family (represented in the publicity shot ...

Nearly 50 years after the Engineering and Research Corporation (Erco) ceased production of the Ercoupe, the “airplane anyone can fly,” the Ercoupe Owners Club still holds an annual national fly-in.

Fred E. Weick Autobiographical Transcripts, Acc. XXXX-0425, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use ...