Johnson Airplane & Supply Co. Inc

USA
Johnson Airplane & Supply Co. Inc, Dayton, Ohio, was a firm supplying aeronautical equipment and rebuilding surplus military aircraft. Expanded in 1926, rebuilding DH-4s and also producing the Canary, a single engined three-seat biplane. Last product (first flown December 1936) was the Twin-60, a twin-pusher-engined two-seat open-cockpit biplane with 30 hp Cherub engines.

Johnson Aircraft Inc

Johnson had designed the Rocket cabin monoplane in 1941, with molded plastic plywood construction and Lycoming engine. In 1945 Johnson Aircraft developed at Fort Worth, Texas, the Rocket 140 and 185 retractable-gear low-wing cabin monoplanes.

Rocket Aircraft Corporation was formed in 1946 by take-over of Johnson Aircraft Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas, developing from the Rocket the four-seat Bullet 125. This was built under license by Texas Aircraft Manufacturing Company, later being acquired by that company and renamed Texas Bullet.

Jodel

Established at Beaune in March 1946, by Jean Delemontez and Edouard Joly, the former as business and technical manager, latter as test pilot. Initial activities concerned with repair of gliders and light aircraft of Service d’Aviation Legare et Sportive on behalf of French government. In parallel, Jodel designed and built D.9 Bebe single-seat light monoplane, first flown January 1948. After official tests with D.9, French government ordered two prototypes of two-seat D.11 (Salmson engine) and D.111 (Minie engine). Followed by D.112, and D.140 Mousquetaire. All built for private use in France and other countries. License built by other French companies including Alpavia, Societe Aeronautique Normande and Wassmer. Licences for building in Germany, Italy, Spain and other continental countries also granted. Delemontez left to join Pierre Robin at Centre Est Aeronautique CEA) in 1957. Various wood/fabric Jodel models remain available through supply of plans and/or kits/components via SAB in Beaune (also D.9 Bebe via Falconar in Canada), including D.9 Bebe single-seater, D.11 two-seater, D.18 two-seater (developed from Delemontez-Cauchy DC-01 and first flown 1984), D.19 nosewheel version of D.18, D.20 Jubilee two-seater of 1997 and the first SAB aircraft offered as a complete kitplane, and D.150 Mascaret two-seater (formerly commercially built by SAN in France).

Societe des Avions Jodel, 36, Route de Seurre, 21-Beaune, France.

Jihlavan Aeroplanes Sro

After the KAPPA 77 a.s. was declared bankruptcy on 16 February 2005, the company Jihlavan airplanes, s.r.o. was founded on 2 March 2005 with the main objective – to proceed in the production of the ultralight aircraft KP 2U SOVA. On 1 April 2005, the Jihlavan airplanes, s.r.o. became the holder of the manufacture rights, intellectual properties, etc. of the KP-2U. Over 160 airplanes of the Kappa KP-2U versions were built. After Jihlavan took over the production of the aircraft it was renamed as the Rapid KP-2U.