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Osprey Aircraft, Sacramento, CA, formed to market plans of Osprey I 2-seat flying-boat (pusher 90-hp Continental) first flown August 1970, designed and built by interior decorator George Pereira. Very successful…
O’Neill Airplane Co., Carlyle, Illinois, formed 1962 to produce and develop Waco W Aristocraft, but this replaced by all-new Model J Magnum (1982) 8-seat utility with 4 landing-gear legs; gave…
Frank Piasecki's first company was P-V Engineering Forum Inc., organized 1941 at Sharon Hill, PA, building PV-2 and PV-3 (XHRP-1) helicopters before becoming Piasecki in 1946.
Pacific Airmotive Corp. formed 1953 and bought Lear Engineering Division, Burbank (see PacAero). Produced Tradewind (rebuilt modernized Beech 18), Nomad (T-28) and Convair 580, agent and completion centre for Dassault…
PacAero Engineering Corp. formed 1957 as subsidiary of Pacific Airmotive at Santa Monica to produce Learstar executive transports based on Lodestar, convert T-28A to Nomad and convert CV-340 and 440…
Pacer Aircraft Corp. Perth Amboy, NJ, produced Pacer Monoplane, 4-seat open-cockpit parasol aircraft 1927-30, and STOL B-1.
Formed 1920 at Venice, LA, to build Hawk 6-seat biplane (2 x 90-hp), followed by C-1 racing monoplane (90-hp OX-5), both designed by Otto Timm.
Packard Motor Co. of Detroit was awarded production of 30 LUSAC-11 fighters designed by Capt. Georges Lepère of French Aeronautical Mission; further orders and re-engined LUSAC-21 and -25 cancelled. See…
PERFORMANCE AVIATION MANUFACTURING GROUP PAM Group was founded in 1998 and is developing an individual lifting vehicle.
ONE GIANT LEAP LLC Parabounce manufactures recreational balloons filled with sufficient helium to permit their users to leap up to 38 m (125 ft) into the air before floating back…
Paramount Aircraft Corp. formed 1928 at Saginaw, Michigan, briefly producing Cabinaire 4-seat biplane.
Calvin Y. Parker, Chicago, flew remarkable Tin Wind ($500) 1962, followed by Teenie and (1969) Teenie Two for which, from Coolidge, AZ, over 4,100 sets of plans sold, possibly 400…
Parks Aircraft Inc. formed 1928 to build aircraft for Parks Air College and Parks Air Lines. Taken over by conglomerate Detroit Aircraft 1930, Parks designs assigned to Ryan, and P-1H…
Parsons Corp., Traverse City, Michigan, built parts for many aeroplanes and helicopters, plus 1 complete research STOL aircraft: XV-11 Marvel designed by Mississippi State University (US Army 65-13070).
PJ-260 aerobatic biplane (28 July 1960) built by Rodney Jocelyn for Capt. Parsons to design of Nicholas E. D'Apuzzo, several more followed.
Pasped Aircraft Co. formed about 1934 at Glendale, LA, building modest number of Skylark side-by-side low-wing monoplanes.
Piper Advanced Technology, subsidiary formed 1981 to manage new programmes, was eliminated on sale to Lear Siegler 1984.
Marvin Patchen Inc. c/o Aero magazine, produced Explorer/Observer 4-seater (200-hp tractor Lycoming on pylon, November 1972). See Thurston.
Vernon W. Payne marketed versions of Knight Twister, which he designed, from 1933 until 1985. All were single-seat aerobatic biplanes of 75-145 hp with 3 sizes of wing.
Convair design engineer Ladislao Pazmany produced PL-1 2-seater (23 March 1962) and formed Pazmany & Associates, later incorporated at San Diego as Pazmany Aircraft Corp., selling 395 sets of plans…
Peter Papadakos formed PC Helicopter Corp. In New York 7 August 1946, soon changing name to Gyrodyne.
Wayne Ison formed PDQ Aircraft Products at Elkhart, Indiana, to market plans of PDQ-2 ('pretty damn quick') single-seater (30 May 1973). Over 2,000 plans sold by 1980, 60 flying with…
C.R. Pearson produced several lightplanes and racers in 1930s at Venice, LA. Best-known Pearson-Williams Mr Smoothie racer 1938.
Former Hayes International acquired and renamed by Precision Standard, Birmingham, AL, cargo conversions of 747, Tri-Star, 146, DC-9, 737.
Pennsylvania Aircraft Syndicate formed 1933 to develop autogyro originally patented in Germany 1926 by Walter Kreiser and Walter Reiseler. Four-blade rotor with opposite blades rigidly joined, so as advancing angle…
Long Beach company published details of fantastic MP-18 Dragon VTOL combat aircraft. The first flight was planned in 1988.
Pheasant 3-seat open biplane (1 of 19 such types in USA 1927) was produced that year by Lee R. Briggs, who operated airport/school at Memphis, MO. Briggs killed 1928, development…
Phillips Aviation Co. formed 1937 Los Angeles to produce Type 1B 2/3-seat monoplane and CT-1 and -2 trainer biplanes.
PIASECKI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION Frank Piasecki developed and flew the USA's second successful helicopter on 11 April 1943 and the world's first tandem rotor helicopter on 7 March 1945; created Piasecki…
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