Aviation Pioneer Dead

Edited by David Rimmer July 01, 2000
Ernest Schweizer, cofounder of Schweizer Aircraft and one of the last surviving aircraft manufacturing pioneers, has died at 88. Ernie, his two brothers and some friends founded the Elmira, N.Y.-based company in 1939, which remains under family ownership and management. Schweizer Aircraft originally...

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