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VSTOL AIRCRAFT CORPORATION VSTOL is responsible for marketing the SST 2000 Pairadigm and SS 2000 Super Solution series of kitbuilt aircraft. Kits are produced in Venezuela.
Vulcan Aircraft Co. incorporated 1928 at Portsmouth, Ohio, to produce American Moth 2-seat parasol monoplane.
Vulcan Aircraft Corp. formed about 1985 to develop V2000 Starfire 6-seat fan-in-wing V/STOL business aircraft.
Jerry (Gerard) Vultee designed major parts of Lockheed Vega, Air Express, Sirius and Orion. When Lockheed-Detroit failed Vultee formed Airplane Development Corp. (see Airplane) January 1932, producing advanced stressed-skin cantilever…
Registered in Los Angeles 1926, built at least 2 'Thunderbird, wings of the wind', yet another type of 3-seat open biplane.
WACO AIRCRAFT COMPANY OHIO INC Waco produces kit replicas of the UMF design built in the early 1930s by the US company of the same name and certified under ATC…
Unrelated to WACO (Portsmouth, Ohio), merely having bought name, Waco Aircraft Co., subsidiary of Allied Aero Industries, formed San Antonio, TX, 1966, to market and produce under licence European aircraft.…
WACO CLASSIC AIRCRAFT CORPORATION Waco Classic (known until 1997 as Classic Aircraft) delivers some five or six aircraft per year. It originated in 1983 at Lansing, Michigan, and acquired the…
WAG-AERO INC Company founded in early 1960s, initially to supply light aircraft spares. Three aircraft types currently offered, based on Piper designs. Founders Dick and Bobbie Wagner sold Wag-Aero to…
Wallace Aircraft Co. formed Chicago 1927 to produce C-2 Touroplane high-wing 3-seater (choice 85-200 hp). Bought out 1929 by American Eagle.
War Aircraft Replicas, CA, marketed plans/kits for half-scale F4U, Sea Fury, Fw 190, P-47 and A6M, until president killed February 1989 in prototype WAR P-51.
WARNER AEROCRAFT COMPANY Warner Aerocraft markets the Warner Space Walker, Revolution and Sportster.
Richard Warner Aviation Inc., Covington, Louisiana, bought all rights to Anderson EA-1 Kingfisher and W-1 Super Kingfisher amphibians.
William Warwick, Torrance, CA, produced Tiny Champ sport cabin monoplane (1 May 1960).
Waterhouse Aircraft Inc. formed by William Waterhouse and Lloyd Royer at Glendale, LA, 1928, building Romair biplane with 2 open cockpits, followed by Cruzair 3-seat monoplane.
In 1919 Waldo Waterman established W.D. Waterman Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Venice, LA, to design and build Gosling for Mercury. Waterman became designer/pilot for Bach, then manager Van Nuys Airport, finally…
Watkins Airplane Co., Wichita, produced small series of Skylark low-wing 2-seater with 60-hp Le Blond engine from 1930.
Gary Watson formed Watson Windwagon Co., Newcastle, TX, to market kits/plans of simple all-metal GW-1 Windwagon ultralight (19 April 1977).
Raymond Weatherley and William Campbell formed company pre-1946 at Dallas, TX, producing Colt high-wing 4-seater designed by Luscombe.
WEATHERLY AIRCRAFT COMPANY Weatherly developed conversion of Fairchild M-62 in the early 1960s for agricultural role, and later designed and built the Model 201. Further refinement of the design resulted…
James Wedell was principal of Wedell-Williams Air Service Corp., Patterson, Louisiana, fixed-base operator. Built succession of low-wing braced monoplane racers 1928-33, notably 1930 Cirrus Racer, NR-54Y (Wasp) for Roscoe Turner…
Really micros, but classic design (reminiscent of 1907 Demoiselle) was 23rd by John F. Chotia; formed Weedhopper of Utah 1978—85, over 600 kits supplied, assets taken over by Weedhopper Inc.,…
F. Weick did not form company but took out several patents for foolproof aeroplane unable to stall/spin. In 1933 built W-1, modified 1935 as W-1A, high-wing twin-boom 2-seat, pusher Pobjoy,…
Orin Welch built training biplanes (about 10) for his W. Virginia flying school 1927-30. Then moved to South Bend, Indiana, to produce simplest 2-seater; result, about 65 OW high-wing cabin…
George T. Welsh, Long Beach, built small run of Model A Welsh Rabbit (12 November 1965) high-wing cabin single-seater, followed by Model B 2-seat version with nosewheel instead of tailwheel.
Wendt Aircraft Corp. registered January 1939 in New York to build W-2 Swift high-wing 2-seater (90-hp Le Blond or Warner Scarab Junior), radial often retrofitted.
Wendt Aircraft Engineering, La Mesa, CA, produced WH-1 Traveler low-wing tandem 2-seat cabin monoplane (15 March 1972); 70 sets of plans sold by 1980.
Joseph K. Wesley, Somerset, KY, built 15ft-span Special sport biplane (25 November 1957).
West Virginia Aircraft Co. formed at Wheeling 1919, produced at least 3 C-3 3-seat triplanes (150-hp Wright-Hispano).
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