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Continental Aircraft Corporation
Founded	1916
Successor	Remington-Burnelli Aircraft Corp 1924
Headquarters	Amityville, New York
Products	Military aircraft

Continental Aircraft Corporation was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Amityville, New York. The company also maintained offices at 120 Liberty Street, in New York. Continental's chief engineer was Vincent Burnelli, a future advocate of lifting body aircraft.^[1]^[2]

The company built the Christmas Bullet scout aircraft for the Cantilever Aero Company. Both prototypes suffered structural failure of their thin cantilevered wings, killing test pilots Cuthbert Mills and Allington Jolly.^[3]

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**Summary of aircraft built by Continental Aircraft**
Model name	First flight	Number built	Type	Note
Continental KB-1	1918	1	Observer
Continental KB-3	1918	1	Observer
Christmas Bullet	1918	2	Scout	built for the Cantilever Aero Company

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^ Aviation: 397. 15 April 1918. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ "Continental Pusher Biplane". Aviation: 35. 1 February 1918.
^ Paul Glenshaw (March 2012). "Or Die Trying". Air & Space Magazine.

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[1] Aviation: 397. 15 April 1918. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[2] "Continental Pusher Biplane". Aviation: 35. 1 February 1918.

[3] Paul Glenshaw (March 2012). "Or Die Trying". Air & Space Magazine.

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