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. The firm developed a light civil aircraft, the H-10, based on a pre-war design by Harlow but was unable to find buyers for it.

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* Hemet, California Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles Manufacturing in Riverside County, California {{Aero-stub