Established in 1922, this company had formerly produced railway equipment. In 1924 it began the production of lightweight sporting aircraft, including the BAG E.1, D.1 and D.11 a, the last being a two-seater with folding wings, allowing it to be stored in a garage.
Manufacturer
Bagalini
Via delle Rose 6
Milan 20147
Italy
Motor glider builder circa 2009
Bacon
USA
Erie L. Bacon Corporation established at Santa Monica, California, to build an extensively updated version of the North American T-6 tandem two-seat advanced trainer. Known as the Bacon Super T-6, the prototype first flew in April 1957.
Back Forty Developments Ltd
Canada
Markets kits for the Tundra tandem two-seat microlight.
Back Bone
1998:
Aerodrome de Gap-Tallard
F-05130 Tallard
France
Back Bone power packs wee marketed in the UK circa 1998 by Revolution.
Bacini E Scali Napoletani
This company established an aircraft department in 1923 to carry out repairs to seaplanes and flying-boats on behalf of the Italian Air Ministry. Began in the late 1930s to manufacture components for the Italian aircraft industry and to build aircraft under subcontract for the Regia Aeronautica.
Bachem-Werke GmbH
Bachem Werke GmbH was founded on February 10, 1942, by Diplomeur Ingenieur Erich Bachem, formerly the Technischer Direktor of Fieseler Flugzeugbau. Bachem manufactured spare parts for piston-engine fighters and other aircraft equipment before their moment of fame with the Natter project.
From 1944 this company, with a design team led by Dipl Ing Erich Bachem (formerly technical director of Fieseler- Werke), began development of the Ba 349 Natter, a vertically launched rocket-powered piloted missile that was intended to attack Allied bomber concentrations. Following launch, the pilot would attack the enemy aircraft with unguided rockets, and complete his sortie with a parachute extraction from the expendable aircraft and descent to the ground. The rear fuselage of the Natter and its Walter rocket motor was also recovered by parachute. So far as is known only one piloted launch was made, in February 1945, when test pilot Lothar Siebert was killed. The Allied advance prevented completion of the project, and none of these aircraft was used operationally.
Bach Aircraft Co Inc
1927: (Loyal Morton) Bach Aircraft Co,
Clover Field
Santa Monica CA
USA
Founded in March 1927, the company produced a number of civil aircraft before introducing the Bach Air Yacht in 1928. This was a three-engined commercial transport with a maximum capacity of two crew and ten passengers. Had nose-mounted engine of 220 hp or 400 hp, with one 100 hp or 125 hp engine mounted on the bracing strut beneath each wing.
1929: Metropolitan Airport
Van Nuys CA.
USA
1931: Reorganized as Aircraft Production Corp.
Babcock Airplane Corp / Babcock-Vlchek
Born at Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA in 1886, Verne Clifton “Bob” Babcock’s first design was a copy of the Wright Flyer built in 1905, it was wrecked on takeoff at Bangor,
1905: Verne Clifton Babcock
Benton Harbor WA.
USA
1907: Babcock-Breininger Aeroplane Supply Co,
Seattle WA.
USA
Michigan in 1907. Babcock moved to Seattle, Washington, and built a second Wright copy in 1909, the same year he and a partner formed Babcock-Breininger Aeroplane Supply Co., building several more derivative aircraft. Babcock moved on to several other aviation training and engineering activities throughout the USA before forming Babcock Aircraft Co. in Akron, Ohio, in 1924.
1924: Babcock Aircraft Co,
Stow Field,
Akron OH.
USA
The company experienced several reorganizations and in 1930 it was acquired by the S. Taubman Aircraft Co., and became known also as Babcock-Vlcek Co.
1930: Acquired by S Taubman Aircraft Co, aka Babcock-Vlchek Co,
Akron.
USA
1938: Babcock Aircraft Corp,
Deland FL.
USA
In 1938, Babcock formed the Babcock Airplane Corp. at De Land, Florida and during WW II built Waco CG-4 assault gliders. Babcock left the aviation industry in 1945, and sold the rights to produce his LC-13 to Bartlett Aircraft Corp. at Rosemead, California. Bob Babcock passed away on February 13, 1972.
Ayres
In 1965 Rockwell-Standard acquired Snow Aeronautical, continuing to produce agricultural aircraft at Olney as Snow Commanders (as division of Aero Commander), and acquired Intermountain Manufacturing Company (IMCO) 1966. Thrush Commander was very notable specially-designed agricultural aircraft.
Working with Rockwell, Ayres commenced converting Thrush Commander 600 and 800 airframes to PT6 power before purchasing the entire production rights from Rockwell.
The entire Thrush Commander range was sold to Ayres Corp of Albany, Georgia, in November 1977 and then became known by the Ayres name.
Production continued in 1999 of various developed models as Turbo Thrush agricultural aircraft with piston and turboprop engines. The new owners will continue to manufacture the Models 600 and 800 Thrush Commanders. Fred Ayres, who developed the Turbo Thrush PT6 retrofit, was able to produce new aircraft rather than conversions. Has also developed the Loadmaster, a uniquely configured multipurpose transport with two turboprop engines driving a single propeller, intended mainly for carrying bulk and containerised freight but with passenger/troop and reconnaissance variants planned.
On 27 November 2000, the Ayres Corp filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, necessitated by the larger than expected development costs of the new Loadmaster aircraft.
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