Stearman Aircraft

The Stearman Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer.

The company was founded in October 1926 by Lloyd Stearman in Venice (California), then moved but a short time later in September 1927 according to Wichita ( Kansas) to. Two years later he sold the company to the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation.

In September 1934, United was forced to separate the divisions airline ( United Airlines), and aircraft manufacturing. At the time, Boeing was again independently and Stearman became a subsidiary of Boeing in 1939 and its Wichita Division.

Stearman officially ended the business under the brand name, but precisely at this time developed the Stearman - works its most successful models, the Stearman 75 (see Boeing - Stearman PT -17), which is the most important training aircraft for the U.S. armed forces was during the Second World War. This aircraft has been and is still easy Stearman Boeing Stearman or called, although Stearman developed many other aircraft which have been largely forgotten.