Stinson Aircraft Company
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The Stinson Aircraft Company was an aircraft manufacturing company in the United States between the 1920s and the 1950s.
Stinson SR-8E Reliant
A 1928-built Stinson SM-2 Junior at Lakeland, Florida, in April 2007
Stinson SM-6000B Airliner trimotor of 1931 airworthy at the Weeks Museum, Polk City, Florida in April 2007
1939 Stinson HW-75 (also called the 105). The production run totalled 535 aircraft (275 in 1939 and 260 in 1940).
Katherine Stinson
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Katherine Stinson was an American aviation pioneer who, in 1912, became the fourth woman in the United States to earn the FAI pilot certificate. She set flying records for aerobatic maneuvers, distance, and endurance. She was the first female pilot employed by the U.S. Postal Service and the first civilian pilot to fly the mail in Canada. She was also one of the first pilots to ever fly at night and the first female pilot to fly in Canada and Japan.
Stinson c. 1910
Katherine Stinson and her Curtiss airplane.
Aviatrix Katherine Stinson racing the 1916 Indy 500 champion Dario Resta
Gnome Gamma engine and Katherine Stinson doing maintenance in Japan on September 3, 1917