Sturtevant Aeroplane Company
B. F. Sturtevant Co., manufacturer of hydraulic pumps, which had formed a subsidiary that manufactured petrol engines, including V-8 aircraft engines, formed new subsidiary, Sturtevant Aeroplane Co., 1915, to market those engines and, apparently, to manufacture aircraft using those engines, hiring Grover C. Loening, which see, as the subsidiary's president and chief engineer.
According to the Aircraft Year Book the main organizing of the company was done by brothers Noble Foss and Benjamin S. Foss, who were President and Vice-President.
Built Curtiss JNs and Avro DH4s, apparently for U.S. Army and, apparently, using Sturtevant engines. Also built own-designed 2-seat biplane seaplane for U.S. Navy. In addition, built single-seat sesquiplane for U.S. Army that was failure and a handful of other one- or two-off of its own designs that appear to have included a trimotor battleplane and another seaplane.
At the close of hostilities there were over 1,000 employees at the two plants. A band of thirty pieces had been organized that furnished music a welfare and patriotic meetings. Every convenience was considered by the management to help make the plant attractive to its employees, and the results were gratifying in both the grade of work produced and the absence of labor difficulties.[1]
Loening formed Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp., December 1917. SD184 also lists a Grover Loening Aircraft Co., Garden City, NY, that produced five designs, including two that from their names sound like seaplanes and one of these was a monoplane. We do not know what the dates were for this company.
Sources
- Gunston, 1993, p295; 187-188
- Gunston, 2005, p445, 290-291, SD275 , 184
- Aircraft Year Book, 1919, pp. 30, 229—239
References
- ↑ Aircraft Year Book, 1919, p. 239.
| Organization names | Sturtevant Aeroplane Co. |
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| Entity type | |
| Country | US |
| City | Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA |
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| Scope | |
| Started aero | 1915 |
| Ended aero | 1919? |
| Keywords | 3 |
| Key people | Grover C. Loening, Noble Foss, Benjamin S. Foss, W. Emerson Barret, Elbridge G. Davis |
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People affiliated with Sturtevant Aeroplane Company
- Grover Cleveland Loening (Occupations: Engineer • Military officer, Tech areas: Airplane)
Companies affiliated with Sturtevant Aeroplane Company
- B. F. Sturtevant Co. (City: Hyde Park, Boston, Massachusetts, Keywords: Motor)
- Sturtevant Manufacturing Corporation (City: Hyde Park, Massachusetts)
Publications by or about Sturtevant Aeroplane Company
- Publication B2p1298e10, 1916, Activities of Sturtevant aeroplane company (Simple title: Activities of Sturtevant aeroplane company, Journal: Aerial Age)
