# Aircraft Designs

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'''Aircraft Designs Inc''' was a US aircraft design and manufacturing firm founded in [Monterey, California](/source/Monterey%2C_California) by Martin Hollmann in 1976.<ref name="Cliche">Cliche, Andre: ''Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide'' 8th Edition, page F-1. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. {{ISBN|0-9680628-1-4}}</ref> Apart from working on its own designs, the firm provides design and engineering analysis to other aerospace ventures.<ref name="WDLA15">Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 94. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. {{ISSN|1368-485X}}</ref>

Hollmann and his company carried out much subcontract work, particularity in his areas of expertise, including [aeroelasticity](/source/aeroelasticity) and [structural analysis](/source/structural_analysis). He also designed a number of [gyroplane](/source/gyroplane)s.<ref name="WDLA15"/>

The company was dissolved on 30 January 2012 and owner Martin Hollmann died 12 October 2012 of cancer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.altavistamortuary.com/sitemaker/sites/altavi1/obit.cgi?user=763201Hollmann |title=In Memory of Martin Hollmann |publisher=Altavistamortuary.com |date= |accessdate=2013-11-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/C1246328|title= Aircraft Designs Inc. |access-date= 13 November 2020|work= opencorporates.com|date= 27 September 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201113220932/https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/C1246328|archive-date= 13 November 2020|url-status= live}}</ref>

== Aircraft ==

{| class="wikitable"  style="margin:auto; font-size:90%;"
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|+  style="text-align:center; background:#bfd7ff;"| '''Summary of aircraft built by Aircraft Designs'''
|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Model name
! First flight
! Number built
! Type

|-
|align=left| '''[ADI Sportster](/source/ADI_Sportster)'''
|align=center| 1974
|align=center| 
|align=left| Single-engine two-seat [gyroplane](/source/gyroplane) plans
|-
|align=left| '''[ADI Condor](/source/ADI_Condor)'''
|align=center| 1981
|align=center| 
|align=left| Single-engine, twin boom, two-seat [motorglider](/source/motorglider).
|-
|align=left| '''[ADI Bumble Bee](/source/ADI_Bumble_Bee)'''
|align=center| 1983
|align=center| 
|align=left| Single-engine single-seat gyroplane
|-
|align=left| '''[ADI Stallion](/source/ADI_Stallion)'''
|align=center| 1994
|align=center| 
|align=left| Single-engine six-seat touring [light aircraft](/source/light_aircraft)
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.aircraftdesigns.com/ Aircraft Designs Inc website]
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Category:Companies established in 1986
Category:Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Category:Companies based in Monterey County, California
Category:1986 establishments in California

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