Henri Fabre (born in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) on 29 November 1882 and died on 29 June 1984 in Touvet (Isère), at the age of 101) is a French engineer and aviator. He was the inventor in 1910 of the hydroplane (first named hydro-airplane, until 1913).
1998:
Aerodrome BP 213
F-26205 Montelimar cedex
France
Power pack builder
Produces the Extra 200 lower-cost, two-seat and 200 hp aerobatic competition and aerobatic training monoplane (first flown 1996); Extra 300 in single-seat 300 hp aerobatic competition (300 S), tandem two-seat aerobatic and training/cross-country (300), and 300 L low-wing (instead of mid-wing) variants; Extra 330 as a derivative of Extra 300 with Textron Lycoming AEIO-580 engine; and Extra 400 pressurized high-wing six-seat touring cabin monoplane (first flown 1996).
1995: PO Box 609, Redmond, OR 97756, USA.
Ken Wheeler first produced the Express but on the 1992 bankruptcy, the rights were acquired by Ralph Kenner.
1997-8: Express Aircraft Co. LLC, 7825 Old Highway 99 SE, Ste 200 Olympia, WA 98501, USA.
In 2003 Larry Olson, the owner of Express Aircraft, crashed enroute to AirVenture in his turbine powered, retractable Express.
2004: Wheeler Technologies, Tacoma-¬Narrows Airport, Gig Harbor, Washington 98335, USA,
Company re-formed 1997 to sell kits of the Express four seat composites-built cabin monoplane, previously marketed by Wheeler, Express Design, and Experimental Aircraft Technologies. Also marketing kits for six-seat Loadmaster (first flown 1993 as Express Design type), Express CT, Srs 90 and Auriga.
1997-8: 120 E. South 6th, Grangeville, ID 83530, USA.
Offers kits to build the Ellipse four-seat high-wing monoplane, first flown 1997.
1998:
Markgrȁflerstrasse 35
D-79379 Mȕllheim
Germany
Power pack builder
1991: Experimental Aviation, 3021 Airport Avenue, Hangar 109, Santa Monica CA90405, USA.
1995-6: 3025 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90405, USA.
A Chapter 11 reorganisation attempt followed the loss in 1995 of the company’s demo pilot and demonstrator in an accident at Santa Paula, California, and a lawwsuit from a former partner.
In 1996 Experimental Aviation filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
1997-8: 3025 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90405, USA.
Experimental Aviation was reconstituted as Renaissance Composite, operating from the same address (1998).
Developed the Berkut as tandem two-seat compositesbuilt canard monoplane with pusher engine, first flown 1991 and made available in kit form.
In the early 1900s Excelsior produced 15-30 hp motorcycle engine convesions.
Ed Swearingen returned to airplanes in 1959 by forming his own company, Excalibur Aviation, to produce the Swearingen Excalibur. This was a cleaned up, re engined modification of the Beech Twin Bonanza, and it was followed by Queen Air conversions and then the popular turboprop Merlin series.
In October 1960 Excalibur Aviation acquired all rights for conversion program (for which it already had responsibility) of Beechcraft Queen Air and Twin-Bonanza marketed by Swearingen Aircraft. Continues production at San Antonio, Texas. New company has adopted the name Queenaire 800 for former Swearingen 800.
New Zealand
The brothers were passionate about aviation for many decades around the 1960s.
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