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Standard Steel Works

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Kansas City MO.
USA

According to an article in The Kansas Citizen of 18 December 1928, Standard Steel Works were contractors to build 50 cabin biplanes from plans and a pattern aircraft from United Aircraft Co of Wichita.

The company also announced they were in the process of designing and building their own eight-passenger, all-metal, cantilever-wing monoplane.

Standard Aircraft Corp

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Standard-Caproni
Standard-DH
Standard-Handley-Page
Gates-Day Standard

Anticipating eventual entry of U.S.A. into First World War, was formed in 1916 as Standard Aero Corp, with factories in New Jersey. Made to own designs SJ trainers; E-1 single-seat fighters, used for advanced training; H-3 landplane reconnaissance biplanes and H-4-H floatplanes. Also built 80 Curtiss HS single-engined flying-boats and began quantity production of Handley Page and Caproni large bombers. Also built about 140 DH-4s; total wartime output was over 1,000 aircraft.

1917: Standard Aircraft Corp.

1920: Ended operations, inventory sold to Nebraska Aircraft Co.

1928: Reorganized as (Ivan R) Gates-(Charles H) Day Aircraft Co, Paterson NJ.

1929: Reorganized as Standard Aircraft Corp to build New Standard line, aka Gates-Day Standard.

Stampe et Vertongen

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Constructions Aéronautics J.Stampe & M.Vertongen

Belgium
Jean Stampe and Maurice Vertongen founded their company as a flying school at Antwerp-Deurne in 1922. Specialized in trainer aircraft. Early type designations signified that Alfred Renard was chief designer.
After Renard left the company he was replaced by Georges Ivanow.
In 1947 the partnership with Renard was renewed.

In April 1923 flew RSV.32-90 and developed several biplane types and parasol monoplanes. Greatest success was S.V.4 series of two-seat trainer biplanes, built from 1933 and famed for manoeuvrability and strength. Type was also built by SNCAN in France. S.V.5 was military multipurpose type; S.V.7 a bomber/reconnaissance biplane; S.V.10 a two-seat twin-engined military multipurpose type for Belgian Government. Although the company’s Antwerp factory was destroyed in Second World War the name lives on in aerobatic flying.

Stampe Et Renard Sa

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Belgium
Formed after Second World War by merger of Constructions Aeronautiques G. Renard and Stampe etVertongen.
Overhauled and modified highly successful S.V.4 series of trainer biplanes, as used by Belgian and French Air Forces. Developed modernized S.V.4D; also, as a collaborative venture with Farman, new monoplane called Minitor using fuselage components of S.V.4. By 1970 had ceased aeronautical work.

Staib, Wilbur

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Carthage MO.
USA

Wilbur Staib (1914–1993) was a self-taught aircraft designer from Diamond, Missouri. Staib served as a flight instructor during the Second World War at Chanute, Kansas flying PT-14s. Staib designed and built five different “LB” (Little Bastard) aircraft and a helicopter, of which several had the title “world’s smallest” at their time of construction. Staib flew his aircraft in airshows with the title “The Diamond Wizard”.

Wilbur Staib converted himself from motorcycle and speed boat passions in the late twenties, he has since come up with some mighty fine air-planes. He originally designed and built the three biplanes for Merrill L. Carpenter, which are known as the Carpenter “Specials”. Wilbur starts building by drawing chalk lines on the floor, and by periodically referring to his floor “drawing-board”, proceeds to build an airplane. There were four late biplanes, which all bore the Staib name. All were fully aerobatic and guaranteed not to come apart at any speed or attitude, with terminal velocity tests to back them up.