Command-Aire

Short description: Aircraft Manufacturer

Command-Aire

Formerly| Arkansas Aircraft Corporation
Industry| Aerospace
Fate| Bankrupt
Predecessor| Arkansas Aircraft Company
Founded| 1926; 98 years ago (1926)
Founders|

* Major John Carroll Cone
* W. F. Moody

Defunct| 1931; 93 years ago (1931)
Headquarters|

Little Rock, Arkansas

United States

Key people

* Albert Vollmecke
* Robert B. Snowden

Products| Aircraft

Command-Aire 5C3 N997E

The Command-Aire was an American aircraft manufacturer from the late 1920s and early 1930s based in Little Rock, Arkansas.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Aircraft
* 3 References
* 3.1 Citations
* 3.2 Bibliography

## History

The company was founded on August 26, 1926 by Major J. Carroll Cone and W. F. Moody as the Arkansas Aircraft Corporation.[1][2] Aircraft were built in the former Climber Motor Company Factory at 1823 East 17th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas.[3] After a failed attempt by their first engineer to produce their own design, they attempted to arrange the purchase of a production licence for the Heinkel HD 40, and when that fell through they hired a Heinkel engineer, Albert Vollmecke, who would be responsible for the rest of the company's designs.[2] In September 1928, the company was purchased by Robert B. Snowden and the name was changed to Command-Aire. With rapidly declining sales due to the Great Depression, and with no acceptable offers for a merger, the company declared bankruptcy in 1931 and its remaining assets were sold off.[1]

## Aircraft

Model name  | 1st flight  | ATC #  | No. built  | Type

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Glider[4] | 1928  | n/a  | 1  | glider (NX3895)
3C3[5] | 1928  | ATC 53, 2-201  | 178 or 179  | three seat biplane
4C3  | 1929  | n/a  | 1  | Prototype two-seat biplane
5C3[6] | 1929  | ATC 184, 2-251  | 63 or 64  | three seat biplane
BS-14  | 1930  | ATC 2-204  | 1  | Prototype two-seat training biplane
BS-16  | 1930  | n/a  | 2  | Prototype three-seat training biplane
MR-1 Little Rocket  | 1930  | n/a  | 1  | Single-seat racing monoplane

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lock, Robert G.. "Development of Arkansas Aircraft Corporation Model 3C3". http://ox5.org/wp-content/uploads/Command-Aire-Albert-Vollmecke.pdf. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Smith, 1992, p.224-246
3. ↑ "Command-Aire". Central Arkansas Library System. 12 December 2016. http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/command-aire-2151. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
4. ↑ Lock, Robert G. (February 2010). "My Friend Albert Vollmecke Part II". Vintage Airplane (EAA Vintage Aircraft Association) 38 (2): 19-24.
5. ↑ Juptner, 1962, p.139-140
6. ↑ Juptner, 1964, p.242-244

### Bibliography

* Juptner, Joseph P. (1962). U.S. Civil Aircraft Vol. 1 (ATC 1 - 100). Los Angeles, CA: Aero Publishers. pp. 139–140.
* Juptner, Joseph P. (1964). U.S. Civil Aircraft Vol. 2 (ATC 101 - 200). Los Angeles, CA: Aero Publishers. pp. 242–244.
* Smith, William M. (1992). "The Right Plane at the Wrong Time: A Brief History of the Command-Aire Aircraft Company" (in en). The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 51 (3): 224–246. doi:10.2307/40023098.

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