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The Buhl CA-3 Airster (also known as the J4 Airster after its engine) was a utility aircraft built in the United States in 1926 notable as the first aircraft to receive a type certificate in the US issued by the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce on March 29 1927. It was a conventional single-bay biplane with equal-span unstaggered wings and accommodation for the pilot and passengers in tandem open cockpits.