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About Leeon D. Davis
- Leeon D.
- Davis (March 9, 1930 – April 7, 2007) was an American aircraft designer, noted for his homebuilt aircraft. Davis started building aircraft models at the age of six.
- Davis graduated with a high school education and a correspondence course in drafting and engineering from the Ryan Aeronautical Institute.
- Davis specialized as an aircraft mechanic while in the Air Force.
- Davis worked as a sheet-metal worker at Aero Commander before undertaking his own designs.On 6 March 1957, Davis formed Davis Aircraft Corporation to build aircraft of his own design.
- All of Davis' aircraft featured a characteristic V-tail, and the most successful of these was the DA-2.
- Plans to develop this basic design into an aircraft capable of certification went unrealized. In 1964, Davis and George P.
- Migo won the United States Weather Bureau's public service award for taking off in two planes alongside a Tornado that formed near Chicago, and flew ahead of its path warning people on the ground and via radio.Leeon Davis died on 7 April 2007 at the age of 77.
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