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Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company

Fairchild KR-34
Industry	Aerospace
Founded	1923; 101 years ago (1923)
Founders	Ammon H. Kreider Lewis Reisner
Defunct	1929 (1929)
Successor	Fairchild Aircraft
Headquarters	Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America

The Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company was an American flying service and aircraft manufacturer from 1923 to 1929.

History

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. In 1935, the name of the company was changed to Fairchild Aircraft Corporation.

Aircraft

See also Fairchild 22 (Fairchild 22 Model C7)

References

Notes

1. Donald M. Pattillo. A History in the Making: 80 Turbulent Years in the American General Aviation Industry. p. 11.
2. "Company Name Changed". Aero Digest. March 1935. p. 59. Retrieved 3 June 2021.

Bibliography

• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982–1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 1674

External links

• 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