Stinson
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The Stinson Aircraft Company was an aircraft manufacturing company in the United States predominantly in the first half of the 20th century. The Stinson sisters became famous aviators ("aviatrices") in the very early days of powered flight (Kathrine Stinson was in fact the first woman to fly an aircraft in Asia) while the Stinson brothers proved to be competent mechanics and designers. They formed the Stinson Aircraft Company in the 1920s, where they proceeded to manufacture a number of classic designs including the Reliant "Gullwing", their most distinctively designed aircraft. The last Stinson aircraft design produced was the Stinson 108, an immediate post-World War II design competing against contemporaneous Pipers and Cessnas. Although slow and ponderous, it featured a huge cabin, various luxurious amenities and features, and had an impressive payload capacity. By 1950 the Stinson company was sold to Piper, which continued to produce 108s for a limited time, and transformed an original Stinson design into the successful Piper Apache, the world's first general-aviation all-metal twin-engine modern aircraft.
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