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The Spartan 8W Zeus also designated FBW-1 Zeus was a military aircraft produced in small numbers in the United States in the late 1930s based on the airframe of the Spartan Executive civil aircraft. It was a conventional low-wing monoplane of metal construction with a semi-monocoque fuselage and a cantilever wing. Two crewmembers sat in tandem beneath an extensively-glazed canopy and the main units of the tailwheel undercarriage were retractable.