Nearly 250 of those are in the nine-county Dayton region. Today, we feature the marker at the WACO Aircraft Company (Weaver Aircraft Company), located at the WACO Air Museum and Aviation Learning ...

In 1947, however, WACO’s designers and engineers went a little crazy. Like so many other manufacturers of the era, the company became motivated to introduce a new “personal aircraft ...

TROY, Ohio (WJW) — Fox 8’s traveling man David Moss takes “flight” for a One Tank Trip to the WACO Aircraft Company which started in Ohio over 100 years ago. It was the largest ...

Years ago, an unrelated company that calls itself the WACO Aircraft Corp. started making a contemporary version of the WACO biplane from its facility in Battle Creek, Michigan. One of those planes ...

In the late 1920s, the company changed its name to Waco, probably as an acronym of Weaver Aircraft Co. Some say the name came from an airfield near Troy. Since Waco airplanes generate enough ...

TROY — Plans are being made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the WACO Aircraft company landing in Troy and the history of the manufacturing of planes for business, individuals and war efforts.

Troy, Ohio, was once one of the biggest aircraft manufacturing centers in the world. And it’s no coincidence that the city's WACO Aircraft Co. — the largest producer of private planes in the ...

For all their importance before and during the Second World War, not many outside of enthusiast circles have ever even heard of the WACO Aircraft Company. In truth, the moniker's been shut down ...

In response to the Army’s decision, the Waco Aircraft Company of Troy, Ohio, probably best known for its open-cockpit biplanes, designed the CG-4 in late 1941.Weighing 2,400 pounds and having an ...

For years, that's how people at WACO Aircraft Corp. have explained the ... famous name in establishing W.A.C.O., or Weaver Airplane Company of Ohio. The company operated out of Troy, Ohio ...

The Indiana Jones in all of us sometimes needs to escape from the daily jungle, which is where Waco Aircraft Corporation comes in. In the 1980s, the Michigan-based company revived the classic ...