The Acme Aircraft Corporation was an American

aircraft manufacturer An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology industry. ...

based in

Rockford, Illinois Rockford is a city in Winnebago County, Illinois, located in the far northern part of the state. Situated on the banks of the Rock River, Rockford is the county seat of Winnebago County (a small portion of the city is located in Ogle County). ...

, founded in 1928.Gunston 2005, p. 6.Grey, C.G. (ed): ''Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1929'', page 235c. Sampson, Low, Manton and Company, Limited, 1929 The company president was R.S. Link and the general manager was P.H. Ryan.

Products

The company was established to produce

biplane A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...

sport aircraft in the range. The company built one Acme Biplane and also produced the

parasol wing A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes. A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing confi ...

Acme Sportsman The Acme Sportsman was a two-seat parasol wing sportsplane built in the United States in 1928 by Acme Aircraft Corporation, a company from Rockford, Illinois. It was of conventional taildragger configuration with open cockpits in tandem and foldin ...

. The Sportsman was designed by Edward A. Stalker, the head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. Only two of that model were completed before the company went out of business by 1931, in the

Great Depression The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...

.Faurote, Fay Leone, ''Aircraft Year Book for 1930'', American Aviation Publications, 1930, pg 76

Aircraft

References

*{{cite book, last=Gunston, first=Bill, authorlink=Bill Gunston, title=World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers, edition=Second, year=2005, publisher=Sutton Publishing, location=Stroud, UK, isbn=0-7509-3981-8 Companies based in Rockford, Illinois Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States