Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga
# Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga

Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga, commonly shortened to EAY, was a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer based in São Paulo and founded in 1931 by American Orton Hoover, Brazilian Henrique Dumont Villares and German Fritz Roesler.

## History

In 1914, Orton Hoover came to Brazil to assemble three Curtiss-Wright seaplanes purchased by the Brazilian Navy. He settled permanently in Brazil in 1928 and worked with Federico Brotero on the development of the IPT Bichinho a single-seat sport aircraft. Henrique Dumont Villares was the nephew of Alberto Santos Dumont and Fritz Roesler was a German fighter pilot in World War I before going to Brazil. Roesler founded a flight school near São Paulo in 1923 and, together with George Coubisier, Francisco Matarazzo and others, the VASP airline.

Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga began operations with the production of the EAY-101 glider, a copy of the Stamer Lippisch Zögling, of which six were built. The second aircraft model EAY-201 was a copy of the Taylor Cub. The EAY-201 was a two-seat trainer aircraft and first flew in 1935, with only five examples built. EAY was then acquired by Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista in 1942. The EAY-201 now continued in production as the CAP-4 Paulistinha.

