Zephyr Aircraft Corp. v. United States

MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiff corporation, successor to the Lenert Aircraft Corporation, brings this suit pursuant to Private Law 660, 79th Cong., 2d Sess., June 15, 1946, 60 Stat. 1227, which is quoted in full in the margin. 1 As used hereinafter the word “plain tiff” refers also to the Lenert Corporation, before its name was changed to Zephyr Aircraft Corporation.

The theory of the plaintiff’s case is that it entered a competition staged by the War Department in 1939 for new and improved designs of primary training aircraft, but that the War Department did not adhere to the terms of its…