Loening, Grover, 1888-1976

Aviation consultant, engineer, author, and aircraft manufacturer. Died 1976.

From the description of Grover Cleveland Loening papers, 1900-1975 (bulk 1913-1962). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981173

Aircraft engineer; interviewee d.1976.

From the description of Reminiscences of Grover Cleveland Loening : lecture, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122597772

From the description of Reminiscences of Grover Cleveland Loening : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309726973

Biographical Note

• 1888, Sept. 12: Born, Bremen, Germany
• 1908: B.S., Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
• 1910: M.A., Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
• 1911: Published Monoplanes and Biplanes: Their Design, Construction and Operation (New York: Munn & Co. 331pp.)
• 1911 - 1912 : Chief engineer, Queen Aeroplane Co.
• 1913 - 1914 : Chief engineer and general manager, Wright Aeronautical Co.
• 1914 - 1916 : Chief aeronautical engineer, United States Army Signal Corps, Aviation Section
• 1915: Published Military Aeroplanes (San Diego: Frye & Smith. 17 pp.)
• 1916 - 1917 : Vice president and general manager, Sturtevant Aeroplane Co.
• 1917 - 1918 : President, Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp.
• 1919: Awarded Distinguished Service Award by the War Department for the design of a two-seater fighting plane
• 1921: Awarded Wright and Collier trophies for the Loening Monoplane Flying Yacht
• 1922: Founder and president, Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America
• 1923: Designed the Loening Cabin Amphibian airplane
• 1928: Designed the Loening Air Yacht, a six-passenger amphibian airplane Merger, Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp. and Curtiss-Wright Corp.
• 1928 - 1929 : Director and consulting engineer, Curtiss-Wright Corp.
• 1929: Director, Roosevelt Field, Mineola, N.Y.
• 1930: Married Marka Truesdale (divorced 1940)
• 1930 - 1938 : President, Grover Loening Aircraft Co.
• 1935: Published Our Wings Grow Faster (Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, Doran & Co. 203 pp.)
• 1937 - 1938 : Aeronautical advisor, United States Maritime Commission
• 1938 - 1975 : Consulting engineer for the United States government and private industries after retiring from aircraft manufacturing
• 1939: Director and consulting engineer, All American Aviation
• 1942 - 1945 : Aircraft consultant, War Production Board
• 1942 - 1943 : Technical consultant and coordinator, British Aircraft Engineering Mission headed by Roy Fedden
• 1945: Appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Consultant for the United States Navy on experimental aircraft
• 1947: Chief of research, President's Air Policy Commission
• 1948: Awarded Medal for Merit
• 1948 - 1970 : Member, National Air Museum Advisory Board
• 1950: Awarded Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy
• 1951 - 1969 : Director and consultant, New York Airways
• 1955: Published Fifty Years of Flying Progress (Washington, D.C. 216 pp.)
• 1960: Awarded Daniel Guggenheim Medal, Society of Automotive Engineers
• 1966: Published Takeoff Into Greatness: How American Aviation Grew So Big So Fast (New York: Putnam. 256 pp.)
• 1970: Published The Conquering Wing (Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co. 196 pp.)
• 1973: Published Amphibian: The Story of the Loening Biplane (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society. 196 pp.)
• 1976, Apr. 30: Died, Miami, Fla.

From the guide to the Grover Cleveland Loening Papers, 1900-1975, (bulk 1913-1962), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)