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The
original company, Noorduyn Aircraft Limited, was formed in early 1933
by Mr. R.B.C. Noorduyn, F.R.Ae.D., A.I.F.Ae.Sc., and a successor company
Noorduyn Aviation Limited, was later established in 1934. Mr. Noorduyn
had been associated with six different aircraft manufacturers in Europe
and the North American continent. During the later 1930's Norsemen began
to appear in the Northwest Territories, Northern Quebec and Ontario, wherever
pioneers were breaking open the frontier by air. It soon proved itself
to be the air freighter by excellence; an aircraft of Canadian design
for an essentially Canadian job. The Norseman first made its name doing
the job for which it was expressly designed, that helping to open up and
supply the Canadian North.
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The sturdy
Norseman was the first Canadian-designed, Canadian-built aircraft to
be sold extensively outside Canada, serving in a score of countries
around the world.
When the
war began, the Norseman proved itself equally adaptable to the transport
purposes of the world under arms. During 1942 a modernized version of
the Norseman was accepted by the U.S. Army for utility transport purposes,
on wheels, skis and floats. When the contract was terminated in 1945,
759 Norsemen had been delivered to the U.S. Forces.
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In 1953,
Bob Noorduyn and several of his old associates, including Austin Latremouille,
bought back the Norseman licence and went into the Norseman business.
Just about that time, the Department od Transport declared that any
airplane design more than 10 years old was obsolete. The new company
would be permitted to complete the five new fuselages it had inherited
from Canadian Car and provide maintenance and spare parts for the existing
planes.
In the
mid-sixties, with a change in market demands, our company made a transition
to manufacturing aircraft interior components. We put the same technology
in our products as we did in the manufacturing of our aircraft.
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We specialize
in custom manufacturing products and pride ourselves on meeting our
clients lead times.
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courtesy of Norduyn Inc. |
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