Samuel F. Cody, famous American, who became British citizen, 1909. British Army?
many kites and gliders, then built six distinct powered aircraft from 1907 to his death, 7 August 1913, none for sale. His biplane, titled British Army Aeroplane No. 1, made first recognized aeroplane flight in UK, 16 October 1908.
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1913
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G80, 60; 2dG103, 77.
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Colliex, Maurice
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1911
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France
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Issy
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0
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Maurice Collinex
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bought Voisin and converted it into world's first amphibian; August 1911 took off from Issy, alighted on the Seine, and then flew back.
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1911
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2dG103
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Cornu, Paul
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1907
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France
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0
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Paul Cornu
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tanden-rotor helicopter flown 13 November 1917, given priority over Breguet as first helicopter flight.
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1907
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G84; 2dG109
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Coutant
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1915
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France
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1
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Coutant?
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produced military aircraft under licence
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1918
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G84; 2dG109
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Coventry Ordnance Works (COW)
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1911
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UK
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Coventry
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1
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builder of aircraft cannon and Anzani engines; absorbed Warwick Wright 1911 and built original designs to 1914; then produced BE (BE=Bleriot Experimental), RE, and Sopwith designs.
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G84; 2dG110; http://www.britishanzani.co.uk/History.htm (28 May 2009)
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Herring-Curtiss Co.
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1909
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USA
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1
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Glen Hammond Curtiss with Augustus Herring. Curtiss had previously built bicycles, motorcylces, airships and engines and been a member of AEA where he had built his own craft, June Bug, that won Scientific American prize for first officially observed flight exceeding 1 km, 20 June 1908. Herring had built a Lilienthal-type glider, 1894.
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Formed 20 March 1909, Herring-Curtiss Co. is considered to be first U.S. aircraft manufacturing company. Built 63hp machine that won two prizes at Reims, France, August 1909, and Pulitzer prize for flight 29 May 1910. Built amd sold landplanes, flying boats, and various amphibians; set up flying schools and toured US giving air shows.
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G87. 2dG112; SD152,
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Curtiss Aeroplane Co.
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1910
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USA
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1
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Founders, Designers, Key sponsors: Hugh Robinson joined company in 1910 in California and was associated with building the first successful flying boat with power plant within the hull; introduced the first Curtiss hydro-aeroplane into Europe.
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G87; YB66-7;
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Notes from YB66-7. Robinson made the first long-distance flight (375 miles) in a hydro-aeroplane in 1911 and held the world's unofficial altitude record for the hydro-aeroplane (9,680 feet) from 1911 to 1914. Robinson left the Curtiss Company at Buffalo in 1917 to become General Superintent of the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Corporation.
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Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co
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1911
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USA
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1
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Charles Willard, who had learned to fly the first Curtiss machine, was chief engineer, Curtiss Airplane Co., 1915-16, and assisted in the design of their large flying boats.
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G87; YB61
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Curtiss Aeroplane Co., Canada
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1915
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Canada
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Long Branch (or Long Beach), Toronto, Ontario.
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3
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Factory set up to build JN series trainers; taken over 1916 by Canadian government and renamed Canadian Aeroplanes.
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nationalized by Canadian government,1916
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G68, 2dG88;
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Daimler Motoren-Gesellschaft
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1915
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Germany
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Stuttgart and Sindelfingen (Bayern)
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1
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1919 designer Hanns Klemm
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aircraft division established July 1915; made biplane fighters
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1919 or after 1919?
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G89; 2dG119; Dir1920 p27;
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Dir1920 p30 lists this company at Stüttgart-Untertürkheim
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Danton
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1911
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France
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France
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0
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Danton
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"built pioneer aircraft"
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1913?
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G89; 2dG119;
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d'Astoux et Cie (Astoux)
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1916
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France
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Etampes? France
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1?
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d'Astoux; pilot-designer Jules Védrines
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built two aeroplanes; Vedrines assisted in design of the first, a triplane with 130hp Clerget engine, that crashed Etampes early 1917; second unknown.
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1917?
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G91; 2dG121
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de Fabregue
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1907
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France
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0
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de Fabregue
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built gliders, 1907-1908.
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1908
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SD117
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de Havilland, Geoffrey
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1910
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UK
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Fullham, London, England
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0
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Geoffrey de Havilland, designer; F.T. Hearle, marine engineer.
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with Hearle, de Havilland rented workshop, 1908; built biplane whose wings broke in flight trials; the rebuilt biplane, apparently called de Havilland No. 2, made good flight 10 September 1910 and one-hour sustained flight 14 January 1911. de Havilland apparently brought No. 2 with him to Her Majesty's Balloon Factory (later renamed Royal Army Aircraft Factory) where he was appointed test pilot and designer, either December 1910 or March 1911 (Gunston gives both dates).
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1911
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G92-3, 258; 2dG122-123, 397;
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de Havilland also worked Airco before forming his own compamy, de Havilland Aircraft Co., 25 September 1920.
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de Lailhacar, Jacques Albert
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1910
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Spain
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0?
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Jacques Albert de Lailhacar
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monoplane, 1910.
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1910
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SD141
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SD lists alphabetically as J.A.L. and identifies the aircraft name as J.A..L.; however the listing of ony one aircraft and the date of the aircraft suggest a tinkerer who used his initials in naming his aircraft; thus we have chosen to list alphabetically as de Lailhacar.
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Marçay, Edmond de
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1913
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France
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1
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funded by Edmond de Marçay
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built sea monoplane, 1913; then SPADS in WWI; for profit?
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G95; 2dG124;
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de Pischoff, Emile
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1907
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France
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0
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Emil de Pischoff
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built biplane.
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G240; 2dG125;
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de Pischoff, Emile, factory
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1908?
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France
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Billancort
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1
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Emil de Pischoff with Koechlin
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built at least eight biplanes and tandem monoplanes, most for customers, by 1910.
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1910
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G240; 2dG125;
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Delacmbe & Marechal
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1914?
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France
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1
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Gabrield Borel, designer
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firm built Borel Bo.11 for Aeronautique Militaire, Framce, and for RNAS (?) as a seaplane. (Unknown whether under contract to Borel or with Borel license.)
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1915?
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G54-55, 2dG70
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Delaunay-Bellville
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ca. 1916
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France
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Etampes?
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1?
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famous car company; ? "Coanda-designed SIA."
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At least four biplanes. "Coanda-designed SIA" crashrd 1917.
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1917?
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G95
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Year are guessess. It was a famous car company which built biplanes at some stage; maybe stopped in 1917; not clear that it built them for profit
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Denhaut, F.
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1912
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France
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Juvisy
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0
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F. Denhaut, designer and builder?
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Designed and apparently built first European flying-boat, llown from Seine at Juvisy on 15 March 1912. Went to employ of Donnet and Leveque when they formed company July 1912 to build Denhaut designs; 1914, formed firm with Donnet.
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1912
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G95; 2dG125
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Denny, William
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1915
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UK
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Dumbarton
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1
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William Denny company? Built ships, did engineering
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Built BE.2c through 2e (BE=Bleriot Experimental). Dates make it sound as though shipbuilder built planes for British war effort.
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1917
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G96; 2dG125;
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Establissements A. Deperdussin
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1910
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France
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Bétheny; Reims;
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1
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wealthy silk-merchant Armand Deperdussin; designers/managers Louis Béchereau and André Herbemont.
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Formed February 1910; built more than 2 single- and twin-engine monoplanes, most designed by Béchereau and Herbemont, including racers with Bechereau monocoque fuselages that set many world speed records. Deperdussin arrested for embezzlement in August 1913 and company placed in receivership. In early 1914, Louis Bechereau, then technical director of the firm, and Louis Bleriot, founder of Bleriot Aeronautique, gain control of company, which they renamed Societe Anonyme pour l'Aviation et ses Derives (SPAD), which see..
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1914
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G96, 288, 2dG125, 438; SD101-102, 269.
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SD lists two militry craft dated 1914, which suggests that production continued during the receivership.
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Descamps, Elisee Alfred
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1913
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France
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0?
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Elisée Alfred Descamps
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Descamps made "machine-gun fighter."
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1913
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G96; 2dG125;
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Descampes then worked as designer for Aviatik and as chief engineer for Anatra in Russia before returning to France.
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Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke
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1910
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Germany
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Lindenthal, Leipzig
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1
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established by Bernard Meyer
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built Maurice Farman designs under license, then Etrich and Jeannin Taube designs, then original designs including Mars two-seater in monoplane and biplane forms, various biplane and triplane fighters, and giant bombers . Ailing company taken over postwar by Allgemeine Transportanlagen Gesellschaft Maschinenbau (ATG).
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ca. 1920?
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G99, 31; 2dG127, 34.
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Dietrich, Richard
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1912
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Germany
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Hanuske
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1?
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Richard Dietrich
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built monoplane in 1912, then subcontracted during the war; apparently restarted company 1921, which failed 1927..
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1927
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G98; 2dG128
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Les Etablissements Henri Dits
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1912
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France
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1
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Henri Dits; designer Rene Moineau
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set up to build designs of Breguet pilot Moineau; original design in 1915.
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1915?
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G99; 2dG128;
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MM. Duperron, Niepce, and Fetterer (DNP)
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1916
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France
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1
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Duperon, Niepce, and Fetterer
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made 1916 bomber with Renault engine
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1916?
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G99; 2dG128;
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Dokuchayev
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1910
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Russia
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Moscow
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0?
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Aleksandr Yakovlevich Dokuchayev
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flight instructor Dokuchayev built six aeroplanes including a pusher biplane, four Farman types including sesquiplanes (one flown late 1915 on skis), and a monoplane similar to an LYaM
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ca. 1916
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G99; 2dG129;
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Donnet-Denhaut; 1919, either Hydravions J. Donnet or J. Donnet Establissements; 1920, J. Donnet Establissements.
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1914
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France
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factory on Ile de la Jatte (J. Donnet Etablissements listed at 5-15 Boulevard de Levallois Prolonge, Ile de la Jatte, Levallois-Perret, [Neuilly-Seine].)
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1
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J. Donnet; F. Denhaut, designer.
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Donnet and Denhaut, both formerly of Donnet-Leveque, form own firm to built Denhaut flying boats for anti-U-boat warfare. Relationship appears to last until 1919 when Denhaut is replaced as designer by Percheron and firm is renamed either Hydravions J. Donnet or J. Donnet Establissements.
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1919
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G100, 95; 2dG129-130, 124; Dir1920 p21,p22,p26;
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Donnet-Lévêque, Scociete des Hydroaeroplanes; then, 1913, Lévêque, Societe des Hydroaeroplanes.
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1912
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France
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Original works on Seine at Juvisy; location suggests that this was Denhaut's workshop. Main factory at Quai de Seine, Argenteil, (Paris?).
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1
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J. Donnet; Leveque; F. Denhaut, designer.
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Company formed 25 July 1912 to build flying-boats and amphibians to Denhaut's design. (See listing for Denhaut.) Standard product a two-seatet with Gnome engines. Donnet left in early 1913. Company operated for a short while as Societe des Hydroaeroplanes Leveque until absorbed 1913 by the Franco-British Aviation Co. Ltd. (FBA), which see. Unclear whether Leveque joined FBA; Donnet went on to form firm with Denhaut, called Donnet-Denhaut, which see..
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1914
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G100, 95, 114-115; 2dG129-130, 124, 162; SD122.
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SD cite is to FBA; need to review and add other related cites. Will also add first names of individuals as shown in SD.
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Dorand / STAé / Section Technique de l'Aéronautique
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1913
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France
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France
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0
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Lt.-Col. Dorand; designer Capt. Georges Lepère
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G100
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possible listing on Dir1920 p22 under "Chalais-Meudon, Etablissements Aeronautique de"
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Dormoy, Etienne
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France
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France and US
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0?
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designer; possibly starting before 1916. won trophy 1924
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G100
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Dornier
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1910
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Germany
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0
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designer and researcher Prof. Dr. Claude Dornier
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Claude Dornier was "a pioneer of all-metal structures" Joined Zeppelin Luftschiffbaus in 1910 to work on airships. Put in charge . . . Cont. See zeppelin. Dornier "opened design dept at nearby Seemoos in 1916?
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G100
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Stefan Drzewiecki
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1913?
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Poland, Russia
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0
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Stefan Drzewiecki, famed aerodynamicist.
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built tandem-wing aircraft 1913 and tunnel-tests it before flying it.
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1913?
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2dG133
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Du Temple, Félix
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1857
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France
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France
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0
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naval officer Félix Du Temple.
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Du Temple made working model airplane in 1857 and published its design immediately. Then made full scale airplane which in 1874 took off from a down-ramp.but then failed to fly.
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1874?
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G104; 2dG137
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Dufaux brothers, Armand and Henri
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1905
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Switzerland
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Switzerland
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0
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brothers, Armand and Henri Dufaux
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built helicopter in 1905 and triplane in 1908 (the first Swiss aeroplane). Dufaux 4 is in Luzern museum. Dufaux 5 used in army maneuvers in 1910. [If 4 and 5 are aeroplanes, then they built more than one triplane. We need to say something like built additional aeroplanes including Dufaux 4 etc.]
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