Abrams Air Craft

The Abrams Air Craft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer established in Lansing, Michigan [cite book|last=Cleveland|first=Reginald M.|coauthors=Frederick P. Graham|title=The Aviation Annual|publisher=Doubleday, Doran & Company|date=1944|pages=196|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=pZs7AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Abrams+Air+Craft+Corporation%22&dq=%22Abrams+Air+Craft+Corporation%22&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&ei=pntQSO2nBafSigG6rI00&pgis=1] in 1937 as an offshoot of Talbert Abrams' Aerial Survey Corporation. [cite encyclopedia |editor = Mondey, David |encyclopedia =Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Aircraft |volume = |pages = pg 64|publisher = A&W Publishers, Inc |date = 1978 |id = ISBN 0-89479-032-3| accessdate = 24 August 2008] Abrams had founded an airline (ABC Airline) in 1929 but found himself increasingly interested in aerial photography.

The new company was created for the purpose of designing and producing a dedicated survey aircraft. The result was the P-1 Explorer, [cite book|title=National Aeronautics|publisher=National Aeronautic Association|date=1929|pages=p21|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=jYQPAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Abrams+Air+Craft+Corporation%22&dq=%22Abrams+Air+Craft+Corporation%22&lr=&num=100&as_brr=0&ei=pntQSO2nBafSigG6rI00&pgis=1] designed by Abrams with assistance from Kenneth Ronan of Ronan & Kunzl.

World War II interrupted further work.

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