AMERICAN EAGLE AIRCRAFT CORPORATION

USA

Established 1925 in Kansas City, with E. E. Porterfield as president. In 1926 built three-seat civil biplane with Curtiss OX-5 engine. Specially noted for American Eaglet light parasol monoplane, first two-seat light airplane to be granted Approval Type Certificate by US Department of Commerce. Several hundred Eaglets built before company suspended operations in 1930 Depression. Later American Eagle merged with Lincoln Aircraft Company Inc.


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