Kreider-Reisner

Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company
	Fairchild KR-34
Industry	Aerospace
Founded	1923; 101 years ago
Founders	Ammon H. Kreider; Lewis Reisner;
Defunct	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[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[edit]

Model name	First flight	Number built	Type
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[edit]

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

[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.

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