Mooney International Corporation

The Mooney International Corporation (formerly Mooney Aviation Company, Inc. and the Mooney Aircraft Company) is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Kerrville, Texas, United States. It manufactures single-engined piston-powered general aviation aircraft.

Mooney International Corporation
Formerly
  • Mooney Aircraft Company
  • Mooney Aviation Company
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryGeneral aviation
Founded1929 (1929)
Founders
Headquarters
Kerrville, Texas
,
United States
Key people
OwnerUS Financial, LLC
Parent
  • American Electronics Laboratories
    (1969)
  • Butler Aviation International
    (1969–1973)
  • Republic Steel
    (1973–1984)
  • LTV
    (1984)
  • Morrison Group
    (1984)
  • Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures Inc.
    (2002–2004)
  • Allen Holding Finance
    (2004)
  • Mooney Aerospace Group
    (2004–2013)
  • Soaring America Corporation
    (2013–2020)
Websitewww.mooney.com

Through its history the company has had many American owners and subsequent bankruptcies. Mooney International was purchased in 2013 by a Chinese private equity, real-estate development company, the Meijing Group who ran it until 2020, when it was purchased by a group of Mooney aircraft owners under US Financial, LLC of Wyoming.

Among Mooney's achievements are: the first pressurized single-engined, piston-powered aircraft, the M22 Mustang, production of the fastest civilian single-engine piston-powered aircraft in the world, the M20TN Acclaim Type S, the first production aircraft to achieve 201 mph (323 km/h) on 200 hp (150 kW), the M20J 201 and the fastest transcontinental flight in a single-engine piston-powered production aircraft, the M20K 231.

Many Mooney aircraft have the signature vertical stabilizer with its vertical leading edge and swept trailing edge that gives the illusion of being forward-swept.

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