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The Verville-Sperry R-3 Racer was a cantilever wing monoplane with a streamlined fuselage and the second aircraft with fully retractable landing gear the first being the Dayton-Wright Racer. In 1961 the R-3 racer was identified as one of the Twelve Most Significant Aircraft of all Time by Popular Mechanics magazine. In 1924 an R-3 won the Pulitzer Trophy in Dayton OH.