Verville Aircraft Company

Verville Aircraft Company
Company typePrivate
FoundedDetroit, U.S. (1928 (1928))
FounderWalter Briggs, Sr.
Alfred V. Verville
DefunctDecember 1931 (1931-12)
FateBankruptcy
Headquarters
Detroit, Michigan
,
United States
Key people
  • Barney Everett (Everitt)
    (President)
  • Louis G. Meister
  • Edgar A. Goff, Jr.
  • Charles S. Knight
    (Test Pilot)

The Verville Aircraft Company was a Detroit, Michigan based manufacturer of small airplanes and flying boats, which became bankrupt during the Great Depression. Alfred V. Verville started the corporation after working for multiple aviation companies. An innovative corporation, it could not survive the difficult financial crisis of the early 1930s.[1] The Verville Aircraft Company was located at 4815 Cabot Street, Detroit, Michigan,[2] occupying the former Rickenbacker plant. Verville Aircraft was organized by Walter Briggs, Sr., president and chairman of Briggs Manufacturing Company.[3] Barney Everett (Everitt) served as the president of the company.[4] The treasurer was S. E. Poole.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference receiver was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Reeves, Earl, "Aviation's place in tomorrow's business", Commercial Aeronautics, c1930, United States Link 2
  3. ^ Verville Aircraft Company, Wall Street Journal, August 7, 1928, pg. 15.
  4. ^ "Rickenbacker Motor Company, Detroit City History". [email protected] or [email protected]. October 2007. Retrieved 2009-08-29.