Arrow Aircraft and Motor Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer based in

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in the 1920s and 1930s. It built a variety of light sporting aircraft.

History

The Arrow Aircraft Corporation founded on 27 March 1926 in

by John D. Moore, George E. Moore, and Frederick J. Platz. In 1928, the Patriot Manufacturing Company, a truck body producer, was purchased and merged into the new entity, Arrow Aircraft and Motors. It began experimenting with using Ford V8 engines in aircraft in 1934. However, by 1939 the company was bankrupt, a consequence of the effect of the

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, and cost overruns with LeBlond engines. Despite a hope that the increase in defense manufacturing – including a contract with Boeing – might save the company, its assets were later sold at two sheriff's sales in 1940.

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