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Atlas Aircraft

1940s aircraft manufacturer in the United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ4816784 ↗
Source-derived summary

Atlas Aircraft was a short-lived American aircraft manufacturer founded at Hemet, California by J.B. Alexander and Max B. Harlow shortly after World War II. The firm developed a light civil aircraft, the H-10, based on a pre-war design by Harlow but was unable to find buyers for it.

References

Gunston, Bill (1993). World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. p. 31.

Editorial summary

“Atlas Aircraft” enters the record as 1940s aircraft manufacturer in the United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Atlas, Aircraft and 1940s can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Atlas, Aircraft and 1940s.
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“Atlas Aircraft” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Atlas, Aircraft and 1940s provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Atlas Aircraft” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.