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The Waco Aircraft Company was a Troy in Ohio-based aircraft manufacturer, which produced between 1919 and 1947 mainly civil biplane aircraft. In the 28 years of its existence, the company produced 62 different types under different names.

Even before the end of the WW1, during it time at Curtiss in Buffalo, friends Clayton J. Brukner, Elwood "Sam" Junkin, Harold C. Deuther, Charles W. Meyers, and George E. "Buck" Weaver dealt with the development a single seater flying boat.

By the end of the war Curtiss was facing economic ruin.

While Brukner, Junkin and Deuther stayed in Buffalo to complete the flying boat, Meyers and Weaver went to Lorain, Ohio. Both founded the Ohio Aviation School at Woodruff Field and invited the three others to join them.

In August 1919, Deuther, Brukner and Junkin brought their completed flying boat to Lorain to test it there. However, it was probably not possible to lift the flying boat out of the water.

In August, the three rented a large space there, where they constructed two new aircraft and the company DBJ Airplane Company.

The first design was the DBJ Scout, a small single-seat biplane with a 15 hp engine. The scout could be flown successfully, but suffered so much damage in an accident that it was not rebuilt.

The second design was a slightly larger two-seater flying boat, which, like the first flying boat design, was also unable to lift off the water.

A third model could not be completed for financial reasons. After that, the three DBJ founders joined Meyers and Weaver again to build with the proceeds of barnstorming back planes.

Although there were plans in the late 1960s, license productions of French (SOCATA Rallye) and Italian (SA -202 and SF-260) models to record, but only very few copies were produced.