Incorporated 1925. Carried out three years of research and development in connection with seaplanes and flying-boats. From 1928 was famous for standardized float installations, and by 1947 over 300 types of aircraft had been equipped with Edo floats. During Second World War made sub-assemblies for Grumman Hellcat. First Edo-designed aircraft was the unsuccessful XSOE-1 single-seat observation floatplane. Company name changed in November 1947 to Edo Corporation. In 1962 fitted a Grumman amphibian flying-boat with experimental Gruenberg hydrofoils.
Manufacturer
Edgley Aircraft Ltd
Edgley Aircraft Ltd was founded 1974 to develop the EA7 Optica three-seat observation aeroplane, featuring a ducted propulsor powerplant to the rear of the helicopter-like bubble cockpit (first flown December 1979). Ceased trading 1985.
Optica Industries Ltd took over the Optica observation aircraft from Edgley following purchase from receiver by A. Haikney of Aero-Docks in 1985 and formation of this company to restart production in 1986.
Edel
1998: CPO Box 10049, CO-Seoul, South Korea
Paraglider builder
Ector Aircraft Co Inc
This company was formed to produce the Cessna L-19 Bird Dog, dating from 1950s, under the names of Ector Mountaineer and Super Mountaineer.
Eclipse Aviation
Eclipse Aviation was founded by Vern Raburn in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1998, and in 2000 the headquarters was moved to Albuquerque, N.M.
Construction of the first Eclipse 500 began in 2001.
The Eclipse 500 is flown for the first time on August 26 2002 powered by Williams International EJ22 turbofans.
In 2003 Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F-A engines were selected to replace the Williams engines and testing of the PW610F engines began in 2004. Assembly of seven test aircraft also began and the first certification flight test aircraft was produced.
After airframe testing, in 2005 the FAA cleared the Eclipse 500 to an initial lifetime of 10,000 hours.
Eclipse Aviation receives full type certification for the Eclipse 500 from the FAA on September 302006. The first production Eclipse 500 receives its Certificate of Airworthiness from the FAA, and the first Eclipse 500 was delivered to a customer.
Eclipse Aviation received its production certificate from the FAA on April 26 2007. The Eclipse Concept Jet (now the Eclipse 400), a single-engine turbofan powered, V-tail, four-place aircraft is revealed at EAA AirVenture in Wisconsin. Eclipse Aviation opens its Jeff Harbers Customer Training Center at Double Eagle II Airport in Albuquerque, NM, and a service center in Gainesville, FL.
In 2008 Eclipse Aviation became the fastest general aviation jet aircraft manufacturer in history to produce its first 100 airplanes. The company opens a service center at the Albany International Airport in New York. On May 30 2008, Eclipse Aviation started taking orders for the Eclipse 400 single-engine jet, the production version of the Eclipse Concept Jet. Eclipse Aviation founder Vern Raburn steps down as President and CEO. Roel Pieper becomes CEO.
Eclipse
Operated by Jean-Marc Rousselet.
1998: Route de Bonnevent, F-70150 Etuz Marnay, FRANCE
Hang glider builder
Eber H Van Valkenberg Aircraft Co
McKeesport PA and Toledo OH.
USA
Airplane builder circa 1927-8. Eber H Van Valkenberg Aircraft Co began building a three seat monoplane with side-by-side seating in a rear cabin and a forward cockpit that could be open or enclosed. It was sold to Dr Leland E Phelps of Toledo c.1928, who rebuilt and expanded the plane as a four place cabin. It was never flown when called the Van Valkenberg. It was licensed as Phelps Monoplane #1 and also seen as Phelps Z-281.
Eberhart Aeroplane & Motor Co Inc
Parent company was Eberhart Steel Products Co (established 1918), making not only aircraft but bomb-carriers, bombsights, synchronizing gears etc. In 1922 assembled 50 British-designed S.E.5E fighters from spare parts, “E” suffix denoting company name and plywood-covered fuselage. Aircraft division, named Eberhart Aeroplane & Motor Co Inc, formed in 1925. Developed steel-construction techniques and supplied components to U.S. aircraft industry. Experimental XFG-1 Navy fighter tested 1926/27.
EAY / Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga
Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga (EAY) is a Brazilian company created in São Paulo in 1931 on the initiative of the American Orthon Hoover, the Brazilian Henrique Dumont Villares and the German Fritz Roesler.
Having come to Brazil in 1914 to assemble three Curtiss seaplanes bought by the Brazilian Naval Air Force, Horton settled permanently in Brazil in 1928. He had collaborated with Frederico Brotero in the development of the IPT Bichinho. Henrique Dumont Villares was a nephew of Santos-Dumont and Fritz Roesler (born in Strasbourg), had been a fighter pilot during the First World War before reaching Brazil. Roesler had founded in 1923 in a district of São Paulo, Ypiranga, a flight school, then participated with George Coubisier, Francisco Matarazzo and others, in the creation of the airline VASP.
Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga began its activities with the realization of a glider, the EAY-101, a copy of the German Stamer Lippisch Zögling, of which 6 examples were built. The second achievement of the firm was copied from the Taylor Cub. The EAY-201 was a 40 hp Salmson 9Ad radial-engine, high-wing tandem tandem school two-seater which began testing in 1935. Only 5 were built. In 1942, EAY was absorbed by Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista (CAP), EAY-201 then becoming CAP-4 Paulistinha.
Eaves, Leonard
A veteran, Leonard was proud of serving his country during World War II as communications personnel in North Africa. Afterward, Leonard returned to Oklahoma City and continued working at his family’s automobile repair shop. Leonard made his career there for more than 50 years, and that skill and expertise facilitated his hobby of designing, building, and maintaining airplanes.
When Leonard experienced his first flight in a Piper Cub more than six decades ago, he became “sold” on airplanes and flying. He and Rita soon earned their private pilot certificates, and Leonard also acquired his commercial ticket. In January 1957, they began building a Nesmith Cougar 1 experimental airplane. Their workshop was just behind their home.
Leonard, along with Rita, was a long-time EAA volunteer, helping with the fly-in starting during the Rockford days and long after the event moved to Oshkosh. They were awarded the EAA President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to EAA in 1973 and 1998. Leonard was a lifetime EAA member, a charter member of EAA Chapter 24, held many offices in the chapter, and received that chapter’s Outstanding Member Award twice.
In 1963, Leonard won third place in an EAA design competition for his modified Cougar with its efficient folding-wing design. He, Rita, and Chigger were featured on the cover of EAA Sport Aviation in February 1963. Leonard designed and built Skeeter, a two-place composite airplane, in the early 1960s, and test-hopped Skeeter in September 1966 at Wiley Post Airport. Rita enjoyed flying Skeeter as well. Leonard was well respected as a test pilot for local homebuilders.
Leonard designed and built several more airplanes throughout the years. Leonard R. Eaves, EAA Lifetime 2194, who lost his life in the crash of his Skeeter 1M homebuilt on Saturday, March 3, 2012. He was reportedly en route to a pancake breakfast in Ponca City, Oklahoma, when the crash happened on the Clarence E. Page Airport near Yukon, Oklahoma. Leonard was 92, and is survived by his wife, Rita.
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