(@1980's) Aviation Museum of Virginia, Softcover Booklet, 45 pages, illustrated w/ b&w photos. 

This booklet was an offering by the museum shop at the former Aviation Museum of Virginia for its museum exhibit of the only V-1A Vultee in the world. The museum closed in 2016 and the Vultee aircraft was relocated to Shannon Aviation Museum, Virginia in 2017, where it is currently on display. 

The Museum’s Vultee V-1A Special (NC16099) is the only known surviving V-1AD in the world. The Vultee V-1 was a 1930s American single-engine airliner built by the Airplane Development Corporation, designed by Gerard Vultee and financed by automobile manufacturer Errett Cord. They entered service in 1934. On introduction, they were the fastest commercial airliners of their day. They were used on routes from the Great Lakes to Texas. Bowen Airlines of Texas also operated the type. By 1936, they were sold, having been replaced with twin-engine aircraft when the Bureau of Air Commerce severely limited the use of single engine airliners. When the CAA (the forerunner of the FAA) ruled airliners had to have at least two engines, the V-1As were taken out of commercial service and used as executive airplanes.