The Longren Aircraft Corporation was an
airplane
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design and manufacturing firm founded in 1911 by pioneer aviator
Albin K. Longren. From facilities in
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeastern Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 cen ...
, Longren produced
numerous models of aircraft until its first bankruptcy in 1924.
The firm was reconstituted briefly in the 1930s but folded again.
[ A new version opened as a ]fuselage
The fuselage (; from the French language, French ''fuselé'' "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section. It holds Aircrew, crew, passengers, or cargo. In single-engine aircraft, it will usually contain an Aircraft engine, engine as wel ...
maker in 1939 in Torrance, California
Torrance is a coastal city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area located in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city is part of what is known as the South Bay (Los Angeles County), South Bay region of the metropolitan ...
.[ Longren retired from the company in 1945, and it was eventually acquired by ]Aeronca
Aeronca, contracted from Aeronautical Corporation of America, located in Middletown, Ohio, is a US manufacturer of engine components and airframe structures for commercial aviation and the defense industry, and a former aircraft manufacturer. ...
in 1959.[
* Longren Topeka, 1911
* Longren 1912 Biplane
* Longren 1914 Biplane
* Longren 1916 Biplane
* Longren G, 1916
* Longren H, 1916
* Longren D-2, 1920
* Longren H-2, 1920
* Longren LH, c. 1920
* Longren LAK, c. 1920
* Longren AK, 1922
* Longren NL-13, 1932
]
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Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States