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Fellow Porterfield enthusiasts. This is a portrait picture of William Robert Skinner. One of the Design Engineers at Porterfield Aircraft. He was my father.
He did not particularly like this photo. It was taken on Feb. 3 1944 when he was working for Interstate Aircraft in DeKalb, Ill. He was working on the TDR series of TV Guided Drones for the US Military.
I post this to the Porterfield Club website so that members can see one of the designers responsible in part for the Porterfield Collegiate.
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Comment by Brett Lovett on April 11, 2024 at 10:15am
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Did your father happen to work for Interstate while they were in Kansas City, located at Fairfax Airport? Information about their presence there is scarce, but it appears they were there from February 1942 to sometime between July and December 1942. Plans were apparently to move all aircraft production there from El Segundo employing 400 to 500 people, but it doesn't appear that ever happened. I think it either ended up as just a sales office, or maybe a final assembly or re-assembly plant.
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