The Kreider-Reisner Midget was an American light

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Design and development

The Midget was a low-wing racing monoplane powered by a Wright-Morehouse engine which first flew in 1926. Designed by Charles W Meyers and engineered by Frederick E. Seiler, Jr., it should not be confused with the Meyers Midget a high-wing monoplane built in the Kreider-Reisner factory for Meyers in the same year. The Midget won the Scientific American Trophy at the 1926 Nationals.

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