By the way, DubTrub was right: Neville Shute did design the Airspeed:
http://www.nevilshute.org/PhotoLine/...31-1940-02.php
I am intrigued to learn that all GA in the US consists of flying in either Citations or Stearmans (Stearmen?). Is that why they off-loaded all those old spam cans on the UK?