General Aircraft Corporation

The company was established at Lowell, Massachusetts to build an aircraft designed by Doctor Otto C. Koppen, a professor of aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The aircraft was the G1-80 Skyfarer, a two-seat cabin high-wing braced monoplane.

[4] Before the company could produce the aircraft in any numbers the Second World War intervened, and the Skyfarer programme was abandoned after either 17 or 18 examples had been built.

[5][6] After establishing a factory in Astoria, New York, the company became a manufacturer of the Waco CG-4A troop glider[7] and the interests in the Wayfarer were passed to Grand Rapids Industries.

The company announced plans to produce a new regional airliner called the GAC-100 at its plant in El Segundo, California in 1968.