Kreider-Reisner
![]() Fairchild KR-34 | |
Industry | Aerospace |
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Founded | 1923 |
Founders |
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Defunct | 1929 |
Successor | Fairchild Aircraft |
Headquarters | , United States of America |
The Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company was an American flying service and aircraft manufacturer from 1923 to 1929.
History
[edit]The Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company was formed at Hagerstown, Maryland in 1923 as a sub-contractor. By September 1925 the company was operating a general flying service and incorporated. In 1926 it designed and built the first aircraft the Midget lightplane. The aircraft performed well in aviation competitions so the company then designed a two-seat utility biplane. It had decided it was cheaper to design and build an aircraft for use in its own flying services and the resulting aircraft was the C-2 Challenger. A smaller version was designed and built in 1928 as the C-6 Challenger. On 1 April 1929 the company was bought by the Fairchild Aircraft Company who continued production at Hagerstown and redesignated the aircraft in a Fairchild KR series. Kreider remained president, but died on 13 April 1929 in a mid-air collision. Reisner left the company shortly afterward. By 1931, Fairchild had relocated its headquarters to the Hagerstown site.[1] In 1935, the name of the company was changed to Fairchild Aircraft Corporation.[2]
Aircraft
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Model name | First flight | Number built | Type |
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Kreider-Reisner C-2C Challenger | ~167 | Single engine utility biplane | |
Kreider-Reisner C-3C Challenger | 4 | Single engine utility biplane | |
Kreider-Reisner C-4C Challenger | ~69 | Single engine utility biplane | |
Kreider-Reisner C-5C Challenger | 3 | Single engine utility biplane | |
Kreider-Reisner C-6C Challenger | 7 | Single engine utility biplane | |
Kreider-Reisner XC-31 | 1934 | 1 | Prototype single engine monoplane transport |
Kreider-Reisner Midget | 1926 | 1 | Single engine racing monoplane |
Meyers Midget | 1926 | 1 | Single engine racing sesquiplane |
References
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Donald M. Pattillo. A History in the Making: 80 Turbulent Years in the American General Aviation Industry. p. 11.
- ^ "Company Name Changed". Aero Digest. March 1935. p. 59. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
Bibliography
[edit]- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 1674
External links
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- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MD-137, "Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company, Factory No. 1, 851 Pennsylvania Avenue, Hagerstown, Washington County, MD", 8 photos, 31 data pages, 1 photo caption page
- HAER No. MD-137-A, "Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company, Shed", 8 photos, 7 measured drawings, 29 data pages, 1 photo caption page
- Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
- Aviation in Maryland
- Historic American Engineering Record in Maryland
- Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1929
- American companies established in 1923
- Manufacturing companies established in 1923
- 1923 establishments in Maryland
- 1929 disestablishments in Maryland