Background
Grover Loening was born on September 12, 1888 in Bremen, Germany.
Grover Loening was born on September 12, 1888 in Bremen, Germany.
Grover Loening graduated from Columbia University in New York City, where he was awarded the first-ever degree in Aeronautical Engineering.
Grover Loening joined the Queen Aeroplane Company in New York, managed the Wright Company factory in Dayton, Ohio for Orville Wright in 1913 and 1914, published a book, Military Airplanes, and became Vice President of the Sturtevant Aeroplane Company and Chief engineer for the Army in San Diego. In 1917 he formed the Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corporation.
On June 28, 1930 he married Marka Truesdale. In 1940 they divorced. They had three children.