Kreider-Reisner

The Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company was an American flying service and aircraft manufacturer from 1923 to 1929.

Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company
IndustryAerospace
SuccessorFairchild Aircraft
Founded1923 (1923)
Founders
  • Ammon H. Kreider
  • Lewis Reisner
Defunct1929 (1929)
Headquarters
Hagerstown, Maryland
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United States of America

History

The Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company was formed at Hagerstown, Maryland in 1923 as a sub-contractor. By September 1925 the company was operating a general flying service and incorporated. In 1926 it designed and built the first aircraft the Midget lightplane. The aircraft performed well in aviation competitions so the company then designed a two-seat utility biplane. It had decided it was cheaper to design and build an aircraft for use in its own flying services and the resulting aircraft was the C-2 Challenger. A smaller version was designed and built in 1928 as the C-6 Challenger. On 1 April 1929 the company was bought by the Fairchild Aircraft Company who continued production at Hagerstown and redesignated the aircraft in a Fairchild KR series. Kreider remained president, but died on 13 April 1929 in a mid-air collision. Reisner left the company shortly afterward. By 1931, Fairchild had relocated its headquarters to the Hagerstown site.[1]

Aircraft
A Midget in the November 1926 issue of Aero Digest
Model name First flight Number built Type
Kreider-Reisner C-2C Challenger ~167 Single engine utility biplane
Kreider-Reisner C-3C Challenger 4 Single engine utility biplane
Kreider-Reisner C-4C Challenger ~69 Single engine utility biplane
Kreider-Reisner C-5C Challenger 3 Single engine utility biplane
Kreider-Reisner C-6C Challenger 7 Single engine utility biplane
Kreider-Reisner C-31 1934 1 Prototype single engine monoplane transport
Kreider-Reisner Midget 1926 1 Single engine racing monoplane
Meyers Midget 1926 1 Single engine racing sesquiplane

References
  1. Donald M. Pattillo. A History in the Making: 80 Turbulent Years in the American General Aviation Industry. p. 11.

Bibliography
  • The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 1674
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