Victor Leaton Ochoa was the inventor of the Ochoaplane, made by the International Airship Co. of Paterson, N.J.
"His first plane was a glider with folding wings like a bird; the second with an engine was made in 1904," Steve said. Ochoa promoted aviation in general and predicted, "The airship of the future bound on a long journey will rise to the proper height ... And will fly around the earth or half or quarter the way around it, -- regardless of conditions in the atmosphere below."
He invented and sold the patents on the adjustable or clincher wrench, patented the electric brake for street cars which he sold to the American Brake Co. in 1907 in Seattle; invented a fountain pen and sold the patent to Waterman Co. in 1900 and patented a pen and pencil clip for holding them in the pocket. He sold that patent to the Americna Pen and Pencil Co. in 1907.
Ochoa, whose middle name was Leaton, was born in 1850 in Ojinaga, Mexico, of Spanish and Scotch ancestry. Ben Leaton was Ochoa's grandfather. He was a captain in the Federal Army and settled on the Ochoa's family property. He remodeled an old Spanish mission into a fort and when the government took it over, it was named Fort Leaton. It is located about three miles east of Presidio and five miles west of Presidio is the village of Ochoa Ville.
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