Keystone Aircraft

The Keystone Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Bristol ( Pennsylvania). The company was founded by Thomas Huff and Elliot Daland in 1920 in Ogdensburg, New York Ogdensburg as AEROway Corp.. You quickly changed the name first in Huff Daland Aero Corporation, and shortly thereafter in Huff Daland Aero - Company. The company made a name for himself first with the construction of training aircraft for the Army, and later of agricultural aircraft and some bombers. In 1924 James Smith McDonnell was chief engineer. 1925 moved the company its headquarters to Bristol, Pennsylvania, where they had better housing facilities, a good job market and connection to the Pennsylvania Railroad.

1926 Huff left the company, which was sold shortly afterwards at Hayden, Stone & Co. The new owners carried out a capital increase to U.S. $ 1 million, calling the company from March 1927 Keystone Aircraft Corporation. The name of Huff Daland - but was retained for his own company for agricultural aviation, which had been founded in 1921, but had to go bankrupt in 1928. Keystone continued to provide aircraft to the government and to private customers in several countries. 1928 the company announced the purchase of Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corporation, whose activities in New York were also moved to Bristol. It is also known that Keystone in 1929 was the merger of Curtiss and Wright for a production operation of the new Group Curtiss- Wright. Due to absence of orders had in 1932 the factory in Bristol to be closed, and the Department of Keystone Curtiss -Wright ceased to exist ..

Aircraft types

  • Keystone XB -1B
  • Keystone B -3A
  • Keystone K -47
  • Keystone LB -6
  • Keystone PK-1
  • Keystone - Loening K -84
  • Keystone - Loening K -85
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