In January 1920, the E.M. Laird Aviation Co. Ltd. was started with the purchase of the six month old Witchita Aircraft Company, it's aircraft and the factory of the Watkins Manafacturing Company. Oilman Jacob Mollendick and Buick-Franklin salesman W.A. Burke each contributed $15,000.The first Swallow designed by Buck Weaver and was test flown in April 1920. Laired hired several aviators that became prominant in the business later,Buck Weaver who would co-found Waco Aircraft, Walter Beech, and Lloyd Stearman who would develop the Swallow New Swallow. Following the departure of E.M Laird in 1923, the company was renamed to the Swallow Airplane Mfg Co. Swallow were notable for producing the Swallow TP

Swallow TP

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 in quite large numbers, for its day. A large proportion of pilots trained in the late twenties and early thirties cut their teeth on the TP. In late 1927, owner Mollendick bet most of the company fortune on a record setting aircraft, the Dallas Spirit

Dallas Spirit

Dallas Spirit, , was a custom built aircraft designed to compete in the ill-fated Dole Air Derby between California and Hawaii.-Development:...

 which was lost on a record attempt to asia co-current with the Dole Air Race

Dole Air Race

The Dole Air Race, also known as the Dole Derby, was a tragic air race to cross the Pacific Ocean from northern California to the Territory of Hawaii in August 1927. Of the 15-18 entrant airplanes, 11 were certified to compete but three crashed before the race, resulting in three deaths...

. Company assets were sold to Victor Roos

Victor Roos

Victor H. Roos was an American founder of several aircraft companies, including Cessna aircraft.- Early life :In 1917 Roos was a distributor of Harley Davidson pedal cycles in Omaha, Nebraska becoming one of the largest distributors in the Midwest....

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Designed and built

• 1927 - OX-5 Swallow
• 1936 - C Coupe
• 1929 - H
• HA
• 1930 - HA Sport
• HC
• 1929 - HC Sport
• 1930 - HW Sport
• 1928 - Hisso Swallow
• 1926 - J4 Swallow
• 1928 - J5 Swallow
• 1940 - LT-65
• 1929 - C-165
• 1929 - F-28-AX
• 1928 - G-29
• 1928 - T-29
• 1929 - Swallow TP
  Swallow TP
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• 1924 - Racer
• 1924 - Swallow Commercial Three-Seater/New Swallow
• 1927 - Dallas Spirit
  Dallas Spirit
  Dallas Spirit, , was a custom built aircraft designed to compete in the ill-fated Dole Air Derby between California and Hawaii.-Development:...
  
   - Dole Racer
• 1926 - Mailplane
• 1926 - Swallow Super Swallow