Standard Aircraft Corporation

Subsidiary of Standard Aero Corp., formed November 1917. Harry Bowers Mingle, a New York City attorney, president; Edward E. Pennewill, vice president; Max J. Finklestein (Mingle's partner in the New York City law firm Mingle and Finklestein), vice president and treasurer; Charles Healy Day, vice-president and consulting engineer; Meijeiro Yasumoto, secretary. Directors were Mingle, Yasumoto, Day, and James W. Walker, Francis J. Muhling, Henry J. Fuller, and Joseph A. Bower. Standard Aero was to handle fixed-priced orders while Standard Aircraft Corp. was to handle cost-plus contracts. Mitsui and Company held all the preferred stock and a majority of the common stock.

After the establishment of Standard Aircraft Corp. in November 1917, Standard Aircraft was the real producer while Standard Aero carried on experimental work and the production of special machines. However, as cannot distinguish between what was built by Standard Aero Corp. with any certainty from what was built by Standard Aircraft Corp., we are are using this cell to discuss designs and the cell above, under Standard Aero, to discuss products built during 1918. For production of other than their own designs, Charles H. Day's engineers, specifiers, and designers had to make their own calculations and prepare their own drawings, either because what was provided to them was inadequate or they were simply not given any drawings. This comment applies in particular to the Standard-built Curtiss-designed HS flying boats, the de Havilland 4s, and the Handley-Page machines.

Sources

• 1918AAW569, 575; 1919YB189-

Organization names	Standard Aircraft Corp.
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Country	US
City	Plants at Bayway, Elizabeth, NJ, comprising 614,190 sq ft in 34 buildings, formerly those of the J. G. Brill Car Works.
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Started aero	1917
Ended aero	1919
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