The American Eagle Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft design and manufacturing company which existed briefly in Kansas, but which was a victim of the Great Depression, after building some 500 light airplanes, many of which were the Model A-129, a design attributed to noted aviation pioneer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca.

[1][2] Porterfield was running a flying school at the Fairfax Airport outside Kansas City.

Early in that year, Porterfield's company declared bankruptcy and halted production.

[7] He would later go on to form the Porterfield Aircraft Corporation, and died of a heart attack in 1948.

At the time of the Depression it was the world's third-largest aircraft production company.