The Kreider-Reisner Midget was an American light

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, the first aircraft designed by the

Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company The Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company was an American flying service and aircraft manufacturer from 1923 to 1929. History The Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Company was formed at Hagerstown, Maryland in 1923 as a sub-contractor. By September 1925 the c ...

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Design and development

The Midget was a low-wing racing monoplane powered by a Wright-Morehouse engine which first flew in 1926. Designed by Charles W Meyers and engineered by Frederick E. Seiler, Jr., it should not be confused with the

Meyers Midget The Meyers Midget was a one-off small, low-powered, sporting single-seat sesquiplane, designed and built in the United States in 1926, incorporating several innovative structural features. Design and development The Midget was a small, low-powe ...

a high-wing monoplane built in the Kreider-Reisner factory for Meyers in the same year. The Midget won the Scientific American Trophy at the 1926 Nationals.

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