founder robert hartzell headquarters piqua ohio united states products aircraft propellers website www.hartzellprop.com hartzell propeller was founded in 1917 by robert hartzell as the hartzell walnut propeller company . 1 hartzell is an american manufacturer of composite and aluminum propellers for certified homebuilt and ultralight aircraft . the company headquarters is located in piqua ohio . 2 the company produces propellers spinners governors ice protection systems and other propeller controls . 2 3 contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit in an effort to get off his union city indiana farm 17 year old john t. hartzell borrowed 25 purchased a horse and a huckster wagon and began his business career in 1860 selling lightning rods . in 1875 he founded the hartzell farm wagon company . 4 in the 1890s john s son george joined the company as a partner and it was renamed john t. hartzell & son doing business as lumber suppliers and wagon manufacturers . george hartzell purchased the company from his father and renamed it the george w. hartzell company . 5 he moved the company from greenville ohio to piqua ohio and set up a more modern sawmill . in 1915 the company manufactured gun stocks for the first world war . 5 george s son robert n. hartzell owned a small airplane and did maintenance as a young man . in 1917 orville wright suggested that hartzell use its walnut trees to manufacture aircraft propellers . as a result robert founded the hartzell walnut propeller company in piqua and the company provided liberty aircraft propellers for world war i warplanes . 6 7 after the war hartzell built its own airplanes including the fc 1 the first aircraft made entirely of plywood . 8 the fc 1 took first place in the flying club of st. louis trophy race at the 1923 international air meet . 8 an alteration to the wings resulted in the improved fc 2 model which won over aircraft from the waco aircraft company and the curtiss aeroplane and motor company at the 1924 international air races in dayton ohio . hartzell stopped producing aircraft to avoid competing with its own propeller customers . 8 in 1926 hartzell began building propellers for the aeronca c 2 . 9 during world war ii the company produced metal propellers for hamilton standard . after the war hartzell produced the first composite propellers for the republic seabee . hartzell began making aluminum propellers in 1948 and developed the first full feathering propellers for a light twin engine aircraft in the 1950s . these were used in the aero commander the piper apache the cessna 310 and the beech twin bonanza . 10 hartzell introduced a turboprop propeller in 1961 and in 1975 certified a 5 bladed propeller for the shorts 330 . 8 11 in 1978 the company produced a composite aramid fiber propeller for the casa 212 . 12 in 1989 hartzell produced sixteen foot propellers for the boeing condor another record breaking aircraft . 10 hartzell introduced top prop replacement propellers for piston engine aircraft in 1991 and sold 20 000 top prop conversion kits between 1991 and 2013 . 13 in 1994 the company held the first friends of hartzell air show in piqua ohio . 14 for which hartzell developed its first aerobatic system . in 2013 the red bull air race world championship chose hartzell to provide 3 blade composite propellers carbon fiber composite spinners and governors to race teams . 15 in 2006 the faa granted hartzell the first certification for an advanced structural composite asc ii propeller for general aviation . 16 see also edit list of aircraft propeller manufacturers references edit aerial age 4 . 15 march 1920 . missing or empty title help a b purdy don aerocrafter homebuilt aircraft sourcebook page 84 . bai communications . isbn 0 9636409 4 1 hartzell propeller 2009 . product applications . retrieved 8 february 2012 . hartzell air movement 2012 . annual report . retrieved 17 january 2014 . a b computerized heritage association 1999 . memiors of the miami valley george w. hartzell . retrieved 17 january 2014 . the cincinnati enquirer 2003 . hartzell propeller still building on historic past . retrieved 17 january 2014 . woodenpropeller.com 2005 . early wwi era propellers . retrieved 17 january 2014 . a b c d keisel ken dayton aviation the wright brothers to mccook field page 126 . arcadia publishing . isbn 9780738593890 the aeronca museum 1930 . archive database record details . retrieved 17 january 2014 . a b janet r. daly bednarek michael h. bednarek dreams of flight general aviation in the united states page 142 143 . texas a & m university press . isbn 1585442577 conklin & de decker aviation information 1930 . aircraftpedia . retrieved 21 january 2014 . notplanejane.com 1930 . hartzell hartzite . retrieved 21 january 2014 . general aviation news 29 july 2013 . hartzell top prop 20 000 ready to take to the air . retrieved 22 january 2014 . hartzell propeller . a long history of innovation . retrieved 22 january 2014 . general aviation news 13 november 2013 . red bull taps hartzell for race plane props . retrieved january 22 2014 . aero news network 24 july 2006 . hartzell intro s asc ii composite prop . retrieved 22 january 2014 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hartzell propeller & oldid 732369653 categories aircraft propeller manufacturersaerospace companies of the united stateshidden categories pages with citations lacking titles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version 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