The Connecticut Aeroplane Company
The following brief news item appeared in The Bridgeport Evening Farmer on December 20, 1913, page 2, under the headline “Aeroplane Company Organized In State”
Hartford, Dec. 20 – The Connecticut Aeroplane Company, of New Haven, filed a certificate of incorporation in the office of the Secretary of State today. Its capital stock is $500.000 and it proposes to build aeroplanes, hydro-aeroplanes, and aircraft of all descriptions. It will start operations with $400,000 paid in. The incorporators are E. A. Mulliken, of New Haven, Paul Webb, of Hamden, and Ralph H. Clark, of derby. An Incorporation fee of $250 was paid to the state.