A 1930 Alexander Eaglerock Model A-14, now on display at Denver International Airport.

The Alexander Aircraft Company was an aircraft manufacturer in Colorado in the 1920s. The company began life as the Alexander Film Company, under the brothers J. Don and S. Don Alexander. The company specialized in film advertising, but when the younger J. Don Alexander wanted forty or fifty airplanes for his salesmen, he was forced to produce his own aircraft, as no company at the time was able to fill such an order. Originally headquartered in Englewood, the film-turned-aircraft company was forced to move to Colorado Springs in order to expand. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (874x600, 83 KB) Summary Alexander Eaglerock biplane at Denver International Airports Concourse B. Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (874x600, 83 KB) Summary Alexander Eaglerock biplane at Denver International Airports Concourse B. Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... KDEN FAA Airport Diagram Denver International Airport (DIA) (IATA: DEN, ICAO: KDEN) is a major international airport located in northeastern Denver, Colorado. ... Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 8th 269,837 km² 451 km 612 km 0. ... Englewood is a city located in Arapahoe County, Colorado. ... Colorado Springs is a middle-sized city, located just east of the geographic center of the state of Colorado in the United States. ...

The company built a number of successful versions of the Alexander Eaglerock biplane. These planes were especially popular with barnstormers. (Test pilot Tony LeVier took his flying lesson from a barnstormer in an Eaglerock in 1928.) They were also used for carrying airmail, aerial photography, crop dusting, and air racing. Barnstorming was a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s in which stunt pilots would perform tricks with airplanes, often in groups as a flying circus. ... Airmail (or air mail) is mail that is transported by aircraft. ... An agricultural aircraft is an aircraft that has been built or converted for agricultural use -- usually aerial spraying of pesticides or fertiliser. ... Air racing is a sport that involves small airplanes and is practiced around the world each year. ...

For a brief period from 1928 to 1929, Alexander was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world, and more aircraft were built in Colorado than anywhere else in the world. However, financial woes forced the company to liquidate in the early 1930s.

Surviving Alexander aircraft

A reported 24 Alexander aircraft survive of the 893 built from 1926 to 1932. The oldest of these is an OX-5-powered "Longwing" at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, built in 1926. A later version, a 1930 Model A-14 (NC205Y), hangs at the west end of Concourse B of Denver International Airport. It was restored over a 25-year period by the Antique Airplane Association of Colorado. The Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum is located on the former grounds of Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado. ... KDEN FAA Airport Diagram Denver International Airport (DIA) (IATA: DEN, ICAO: KDEN) is a major international airport located in northeastern Denver, Colorado. ...

The front of the Eaglerock at DIA.

The logo of the Alexander Aircraft Company on the tail.

A bucking bronco on the side of the fuselage. A bronc is an untamed horse. ...

External links

• Article from Southwest Aviator Magazine
• Eaglerock Longwing on display at Wings Over the Rockies
• Listing of Alexander model types, from Aerofiles.com
• Biography of J. Don Alexander