Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga, commonly shortened to EAY, was a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer based in São Paulo and founded in 1931 by American Orton Hoover, Brazilian Henrique Dumont Villares and German Fritz Roesler.

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In 1914, Orton Hoover came to Brazil to assemble three

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. He settled permanently in Brazil in 1928 and worked with Federico Brotero on the development of the IPT BichinhoA photo of the IPT-0-Bichinho on flickr.com
/ref> a single-seat sport aircraft. Henrique Dumont Villares was the nephew of Alberto Santos Dumont and Fritz Roesler was a German fighter pilot in World War I before going to Brazil. Roesler founded a flight school near São Paulo in 1923 and, together with George Coubisier, Francisco Matarazzo and others, the

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airline. Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga began operations with the production of the EAY-101 glider, a copy of the

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, of which six were built. The second aircraft model EAY-201 was a copy of the

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. The EAY-201 was a two-seat trainer aircraft and first flew in 1935, with only five examples built. EAY was then acquired by Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista in 1942. The EAY-201 now continued in production as the CAP-4 Paulistinha.

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