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Eugene Noble Foss
Owner - B.F.Sturtevant Co. (1890-1939)

Though not on the official Sturtevant Aeroplane organizational chart, as owner of the parent company he had ultimate control over the subsidiary's finances.

Noble Foss
President - Sturtevant Manufacturing Co. (1910-1915)
President - Sturtevant Aeroplane Co. (1915-1919)

This was the one member of the Foss family that Loening didn't get along with. He always had a sense of Noble lurking in the background ready to push him out once things had gotten under way.

Benjamin Sturtevant Foss
Vice-President/Treasurer - Sturtevant Aeroplane Co. (1915-1919)

He was Sturtevant's representative at the Manufacturers' Aircraft Association meetings in Washington.

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Horatio Alden
Secretary (Financial Officer)

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Neal Rantoul
Director

Grover Loening
Chief Designer - Sturtevant Aeroplane Co. (1915-1917)

Brought some innovative designs that were too experimental for a low-budget company. He left to form his own company when Sturtevant Aeroplane decided to become a sub-contractor.

John J. McElroy
Chief Draftsman/Engineer - Sturtevant Aeroplane Co. (1915-1918)

McElroy had been employed with the B.F.Sturtevant Co. starting in 1912 as a draftsman then as a squad leader. He transferred to Sturtevant Aeroplane when government work began, ending as Loening's replacement.

W. Emerson Barrett
Office&Production Mgr.- Sturtevant Aeroplane Co. (1916-1918)

F.S.Channonhouse
Shop&Test Superintendant - Sturtevant Mfg. Co. (1912-1915)
General Superintendant - Sturtevant Aeroplane Co. (1916-1918)

Channonhouse had an aviation background prior to 1912, having built and flown an airplane in connection with J.C.Shoemaker. There were other unconfirmed facts of him being involved with similar projects.

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Elbridge G. Davis
Secretary - Sturtevant Aeroplane Co. (1916-1918)

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Harry Jones
Loening assistant - Sturtevant Aeroplane Co. (1915-1917)

His role appears to have been to oversee the unpacking and assembling of the planes upon delivery to the military and get them to successfully run. In the 1930s, he was Maine's aviation commissioner

Bert Acosta
Contract Test Pilot

A colorful pilot in the 1916-1917 period.

Tex Millman
Contract Test Pilot

Millman, a friend of Loening from their Army days, crashed the Model B2 at Squantum. He died in 1917 of pneumonia.

Steve MacGordon
Contract Test Pilot 

MacGordon died in 1917 from injuries received in a biplane crash.

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Charles Diller Fratt Jr.
Master Mechanic - Sturtevant Aeroplane Co (1917)

Worked for 5 months prior to enlisting in the US Army Air Service on August, 1917. Commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant on May, 1918, he served in the Bombardment Group 10th Squadron for a while in France. Fratt grew up in Everett, Washington and attended the University of Washinghton for two years.

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A.F.Graham Jr.
Assistant Secretary and Traffic Manager

An M.I.T. graduate, he later went to Dodge Engineering of South Boston, MA as a mechanical engineer of tractors.

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Allan L. Priddy
Auditor

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L.M.Allison Jr.
Chief Draftsman (1917-1918)

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Irving B. Dawes
Accountant in charge