Yunker Aircraft Company

Yunker Aircraft Company
Company typeAircraft manufacturer
Founded1929
Defunct1930
Headquarters115 North Osage Wichita, Kansas
Key people
George C. Yunker[1]

37°41′05″N 97°21′00″W / 37.684609°N 97.349873°W / 37.684609; -97.349873 Yunker Aircraft Company was an American aircraft manufacturer of the late 1920s[2]

George C. Yunker, was head of a tractor agency in Dodge City, Kansas. He founded the Yunker Aircraft company in Wichita, hiring W.E. Laird as production manager.[3] The company contracted Knoll Aircraft Company to produce some models.[4] The company went into receivership to C.V. Snyder in 1930 with $230 owed in labor.[5]

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by Yunker Aircraft Company
Model name First flight Number built Type
Yunker Y-1-165[6] 1929 1 Biplane
Yunker Y-2-165 1929 1 Biplane

References

  1. ^ Society of Automotive Engineers (1929). Automotive Engineering, Volume 24.
  2. ^ Daryl Murphy. The Planes of Wichita: The People and the Aircraft of the Air Capital.
  3. ^ Wichita Eagle. 21 February 1929. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ The Wichita Eagle. August 27, 1929. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ The Wichita Beacon. 13 April 1930. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ Wichita Beacon. 6 August 1929. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)