Aerial Navigation Company of America

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Aerial Navigation Company of America -- distinguish from American Aerial Navigation Company, an earlier unrelated effort.

The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum site says:[1]

The Aerial Navigation Company of America (1908-1912) was founded by Henry Laurens Call, socialist lawyer and economist. Located in Girard, Kansas, the Aerial Navigation Company designed the the Call airship -- the first Kansas-designed and built aircraft to make an attempt to take off. The airship was not successful, but the company established a factory, a flying school, and built an additional 13 aircraft before going bankrupt in 1912. Only one of the aircraft, the Call Monoplane, actually flew. The Company's biggest success was with the Call Aviation Engine which they manufactured and marketed.

Here's a stock certificate from the company: https://scripophily.net/aenacoofam19.html




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Names Aerial Navigation Company of America
Country US
City Girard, Kansas
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Started aero 1908
Ended aero 1912
Key people Henry Laurens Call
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