The Meckler-Allen airplane was an early biplane built by Allen Canton and John J. Meckler in 1912, for an attempt to make a transatlantic flight. At the time of its first flight it was the largest airplane in the world.
In 1912, Allen Canton and John J. Meckler, two young Bronx electricians, built a span hydro-biplane. The financing for the construction came from profits of their company Mechelectric, which held forty-five patents for new electrical devices. The partners planned to make the first transatlantic flight to Europe.
Christened the New York, it carried twenty-two tanks of gasoline and had five engines, was long, had a span, and contained of canvas, with an estimated lifting capacity of when only two of the five engines were running.