Maybe a little OT for this group, but does anyone know what happened to
the Kane Aero Company? I was brushing up with my E6-B in prep for the
commercial checkride and I have an old Kane Aero MK-6B that I got with
my private pilot kit back in 1977. I got to wondering what happened to
this company, but a Google search turned up little. I found a couple of
MK-6Bs for sale on ebay and some of the manuals similar to my original
private pilot set, but nothing on the fate of the company. I assume
they are long gone, but was curious if anyone knew for sure.

Matt

I remember Kane and also Felsenthal. Lots of small
companies closed shop when the electronic calculators hit
the market.

The Minneapolis BBB might have a lead.


"Matt Whiting" > wrote in message
...
|
| Maybe a little OT for this group, but does anyone know
what happened to
| the Kane Aero Company? I was brushing up with my E6-B in
prep for the
| commercial checkride and I have an old Kane Aero MK-6B
that I got with
| my private pilot kit back in 1977. I got to wondering
what happened to
| this company, but a Google search turned up little. I
found a couple of
| MK-6Bs for sale on ebay and some of the manuals similar to
my original
| private pilot set, but nothing on the fate of the company.
I assume
| they are long gone, but was curious if anyone knew for
sure.
|
| Matt

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:02:04 GMT, Matt Whiting >
wrote in >:

>I assume they are long gone, but was curious if anyone knew for sure.

You might go to some of the Minneapolis newspaper web sites, and try
searching their archives for news articles with 'Kane Aero' in them.

Larry Dighera wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:02:04 GMT, Matt Whiting >
> wrote in >:
>
>
>>I assume they are long gone, but was curious if anyone knew for sure.
>
>
> You might go to some of the Minneapolis newspaper web sites, and try
> searching their archives for news articles with 'Kane Aero' in them.
>
>

That was a good idea. I searched the Star Tribume and the
Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, but found nothing. Kane may have
disappeared before the archives were kept online. Oh well, it was just
a curiousity. I thought someone here might live in that area and
remember what happened.

Matt