Don Mitchell (aircraft designer)

{{short description|American aircraft designer|bot=PearBOT 5}}

Don (Donald) Mitchell (1915-1993){{Cite web|url=https://www.soaringmuseum.org/hof_more.php?id=71|title=National Soaring Museum | Soaring Museum - Hall of Fame - Donald S. Mitchell}} was an American aircraft designer. He was a Scottish immigrant, arriving in the United States in 1922.{{Cite web|url=https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/mitchell-u-2-superwing/nasm_A19890117000|title = Mitchell U-2 Superwing | National Air and Space Museum}}{{Cite web |url=https://mitchellwings.com/ |title=MitchellWing - Mitchell Wing, Aircraft, Ultralight Aircraft for Sale |access-date=2020-07-18 |archive-date=2020-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807100822/https://mitchellwings.com/ |url-status=dead }} He built his first airplane seven years later and founded an airplane manufacturing company in 1937.{{Cite web|url=https://pimaair.org/museum-aircraft/mitchell-warr-b-10/|title = Mitchell Warr B-10}}