manufacturing company founded 1929 founder orland corben headquarters toccoa georgia united states products homebuilt aircraft owner bill wood website www.aceaircraft.com the ace aircraft manufacturing company was established in wichita kansas in 1929 by orland corben to market the world s first homebuilt aircraft a machine of his own design called the baby ace . the enterprise did not last long before us regulations changed to restrict homebuilt aircraft and corben was forced to stop marketing his design . he next commenced operations in madison wisconsin in 1931 under the name corben sport plane and supply company and produced a prototype sports plane known as the super ace . this endeavor soon languished and the company remained dormant until paul poberezny purchased its assets for us 200 in 1952 . this included plans to three aircraft designs and a variety of components . poberezny was one of the founders of the experimental aircraft association in 1953 and was approached by mechanix illustrated magazine the following year to write a series of articles on building an aircraft at home . their publication caused considerable demand for plans but poberezny felt compelled to divest himself of marketing them in order to avoid any potential conflict of interest with his position within the eaa . since then the rights have changed hands several times . they were purchased from poberezny by cliff du charme of west bend wisconsin who sold them to edwin t. jacob of mcfarland wisconsin in 1961 . mr. jacob sold them in 1965 to thurman baird of asheville north carolina who also owned the rights to the american flea and the heath parasol aircraft . the rights were purchased from baird s estate in 1986 by denny meadows of chesapeake west virginia who sold them to the current owner bill wood of toccoa georgia in 1998 . products edit baby ace junior ace ace scooter gallery edit a corben baby ace external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to ace aircraft manufacturing company . company website the history of ace aircraft retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ace aircraft manufacturing company & oldid 710012953 categories manufacturing companies established in 1929companies based in kansasaircraft manufacturers of the united states1929 establishments in kansashidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidata 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 in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 14 march 2016 at 12 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view