[1] The Airster appeared in 1920 designed by Bert Kinner, it was a one or two seat open-cockpit single-engine biplane.

When the prototype crashed on a test flight it was rebuilt as a two-seater with a wider cockpit.

One Airster named The Canary was bought by Amelia Earhart while she was learning to fly.

Later production aircraft had slab-sided plywood fuselages and were powered by a variety of 60 hp (45 kW) engines.

[1] In 1927 the company produced a three-seat variant powered by a 100 hp (75 kW) Kinner K-2 engine, with the last Airster being built in 1927.