Specter Aircraft, Inc. 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 indust ...
, founded by James D Gessford in 1997 and based in
Bancroft, Idaho
Bancroft is a city in the Gem Valley in Caribou County, Idaho, United States. The population was 377 at the 2010 census.
Description
The community was named after William H. Bancroft, a railroad official, and is a railroad town along Old Hi ...
. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of
light aircraft
A light aircraft is an aircraft that has a maximum gross takeoff weight of or less.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition'', page 308. Aviation Supplies & Academics, 1997.
Light aircraft are used as utility aircraft co ...
in the form of kits for
amateur construction.
[Purdy, Don: ''AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition'', page 359. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. ]
The company was incorporated on 23 July 1997 and had its status administratively revoked on 17 February 2000.
The company was formed to develop and market the
Specter II, a
canard configuration two-seat aircraft intended to be sold in kit form.
Federal Aviation Administration
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records indicate that only one was built.
Aircraft
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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Homebuilt aircraft