@ Denver, CO
September 2019
A pristine Alexander Eaglerock A-2 on display at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum. The Alexander Aircraft Company was an successful pre-Depression aircraft manufacturer based in Colorado. For a brief period from 1928 to 1929, Alexander was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, and more aircraft were built in Colorado than anywhere else in the world ( up to eight planes a day). The Alexander Film Company, once the world’s largest producer of movie theater advertising (shown before the trailers), thought their sales team would be more efficient using airplanes. Failing to attract the attention of existing aircraft manufacturers, they decided to produce their own and built a number of successful versions of the Alexander Eaglerock biplane. 893 Eaglerock aircraft were built from 1926 to 1932. The company went bankrupt in August 1932, was acquired by Aircraft Mechanics Inc. in 1937 and went to to produce WWII Douglas Aircraft Company components, US Air Force ejection seats, and Space Shuttle crew seats. Fuji XE-2s w/18-135mm.
