The Meyers Aircraft Company was a US aircraft manufacturer established by

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at what is now Meyers–Diver's Airport.

History

Originally, the company produced a biplane trainer, the

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, but after World War II developed a range of light utility aircraft, culminating in the

Meyers 200 The Meyers 200 is a single-engined light aircraft produced in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. Design It was the brainchild of Al Meyers and was a development of his Meyers MAC-145 design. The holder of a number of speed records in i ...

. In

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, the company and the rights to two of its aircraft, the

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and 200 were purchased by the Aero Commander Division of

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Post-acquisition

In 1977, a company in Denver bought the tooling and rights to the Meyers 200 and attempted to put it back into production. By 1994, the type certificate for the MAC-145 was owned by a company in

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. By 1996, a company called the New Meyers Aircraft Company had started construction on a new factory in Fort Pierce, Florida. The company planned to build a development of the MAC-145 called the SP20.

Aircraft

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Meyers Aircraft Owner Community by Type Certificate and OEM assets holder, Global Parts Group, Inc.
Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States Tecumseh, Michigan * Defunct manufacturing companies based in Michigan {{aero-company-stub