Wright
Model B Flyer
Photo: Robert Deering 10/18/2012
National Museum of the USAF
Wright-Patterson AFB (FFO)
Dayton, Ohio
The Wright Company was the commercial aviation business venture of the Wright Brothers, established by them on 22 November 1909 in conjunction with several prominent industrialists from New York and Detroit with the intention of capitalizing on their invention of the practical airplane.
PHOTOS        
Wright Flyers        

1903 Flyer 1

1909 Military Flyer

1910 Model B Flyer
   

HISTORY

The Wright Company was the commercial aviation business venture of the Wright Brothers, established by them on 22 November 1909 in conjunction with several prominent industrialists from New York and Detroit with the intention of capitalizing on their invention of the practical airplane. The company maintained its headquarters office in New York City and built its factory in Dayton, Ohio.

The two buildings designed by Dayton architect William Earl Russ and built by Rouzer Construction for the Wright Company in Dayton in 1910 and 1911 were the first in the United States constructed specifically for an airplane factory and were included within the boundary of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park in 2009.

The Wright Company concentrated its efforts on protecting the company's patent rights rather than on developing new aircraft or aircraft components, believing that innovations would hurt the company's efforts to obtain royalties from competing manufacturers or patent infringers. Wilbur Wright died in 1912, and on October 15, 1915, Orville Wright sold the company, which in 1916 merged with the Glenn L. Martin Company to form the Wright-Martin Company. Orville Wright estimated that the Wright Company built approximately 120 airplanes across all of its different models between 1910 and 1915.

Many of the papers of the Wright Company are now in the collection of the Seattle Museum of Flight, while others are held by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress also holds the papers of Grover Loening, the second Wright Company factory manager, while the papers of Frank H. Russell, the first plant manager, are at the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center.

The following is a complete list of aircraft built under the Wright name, from the earliest test craft to the last products of the company before it merged with Martin. Note that only the later aircraft were built by the Wright Company itself.

Source: Wikipedia  

AIRCRAFT  
   
Early test gliders Wright Company aircraft
1899 Kite 1909 Military Flyer
1900 Glider 1909-1910 Model A-B
1901 Glider 1910 Model B
1902 Glider 1910 Model Ex
  1910 Model R
Early powered aircraft 1911 Glider
1903 Flyer I 1912 Model C
1904 Flyer II 1912 Model D
1905 Flyer III 1913 Model CH
1907-1909 Model A 1913 Model G Aeroboat
  1913 Model E
  1913 Model F
  1914 Model H
  1915 Model HS
  1915 Model K
  1916 Model L


Orville & Wilber Wright
Bibliography (NASA)