The Model B was the first powered aircraft designed by brothers Howard and Joe Funk, whose previous experience was in homebuilt gliders and sailplanes.

The Model B was a strut-braced high-wing monoplane with a conventional tail unit and fixed tailwheel landing gear.

[1] When the test flights proved to be successful the brothers formed the Akron Aircraft Company in 1939 to build the Funk B.

Production was stopped during the Second World War and one aircraft was impressed into service in 1942 with the United States Army Air Corps as the UC-92.

After the war in 1946 production was resumed using a Continental C85-12 engine and the aircraft was redesignated the Model B-85-C and named the Bee.