Hi Andy;
Having that original Waco Company seal is really great!
The document referred to above. is a cover letter for a list of aircraft patents, that the Waco Co. was registering with the Manufacturers Aircraft Assoc. (I don't need to tell YOU, what that is about..)
It is one page of some 93 pages of listings and letters, in that One file. (and even pencil printed production figures of early Waco lists of planes produced (so they could be tallied for what Waco would owe on the cross licensing patent agreements). A neat list, by Waco model, List price, Number of "ships," List value, Dealer Discount, and net value, Less motors and more, with totals etc. All kinds of original and updated lists of all the aircraft mfrs in the organization, and their officers and addresses etc, From the 61 companies in 1929, through the much expanded list in WWII. It is one of several MAA files in the company archives. They cover the obvious, Curtiss, Cessna, Martin, Douglas etc, and every other mfr through the obscure, like Coffman, B.J. Aircraft, Sturtevant, Viking, Butler etc.
It is a file I also appreciate (as an obsessive collector of historic aircraft signatures/historic documents, for past 45 years)for the hand -signatures of Frank H. Russell, its long-term President, who was the First Manager of the Original Wright Company factory in Dayton, and then Burgess, then Curtiss and others. Significantly, Clayton Brukner, Waco Pres, was a long time menber of the Board of Directors of the MAA, and even its VP for several of the WWII years. Obviously too many great aviation stories, in this file to attempt a summary in a forum post.
Sure would like to show you some of these Waco archives file drawers and albums (in which I have preserved and protected the most significant of the early Weaver, Advance, AND Waco historical signed documents) There is NO WAY to scan them all or list them individually, with such a volume of material.
*and Then... would LOVE for you to help ID some of those faces in these many albums of original National Air Race files. 
Stop by (the airport is only 1/2 mile down the street,) on one of your trips to Florida, one of these days..
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