Fleet Aircraft

Fleet Aircraft

Fleet Aircraft was a manufacturer of aircraft.

In 1928, the board of Consolidated Aircraft decided to drop their light, trainer aircraft and sold the rights to Brewster Aircraft. Reuben H. Fleet founded Fleet Aircraft in Fort erie, Ontario, to acquire the foreign rights to these aircraft. Consolidated bought back Fleet Aircraft as a separate division in 1929 and formed Fleet Aircraft of Canada in 1930. The Fleet name was dropped for the Consolidated business name in 1939. Fleet Aircraft of Canada produced the Fleet Finch for the RCAF, and later the Fleet Canuck. Fleet developed a prototype light helicopter which flew successfully, but was not put into production. [ Page and Cumming 1990] Fleet ended aircraft manufacturing operations in 1957.

Fleet was eventually merged into Magellan Aerospace of Toronto, but the plant was finally closed in 2003, and the work was transferred to other Magellan divisions.

Aircraft

* Fleet 1
* Fleet 2
* Fleet 5
* Fleet 7 Fawn
* Fleet 10 - 16 Finch
* Fleet 21
* Fleet 50 Freighter
* Fleet 60 Fort
* Fleet 80 Canuck
* Fleet helicopter

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References

Notes

Bibliography

* Page, Ron D. and Cumming, William. "Fleet: The Flying Years". Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1990. ISBN 1-55046-019-6.

External links

* [http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/image_bank/dig_image.cfm?Lang=e&id=1842 Fleet Freighter]
* [http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/collections/image_bank/dig_image.cfm?Lang=e&id=11465 Fleet helicopter]


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