Huff-Daland
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| Predecessor | Ogdensburg Aeroway Corp |
|---|---|
| Successor | Keystone Aircraft Corp |
Key people | Thomas Henri Huff, Elliot Daland, George G. Post, Lt. Harold Harris, |
| Subsidiaries | Huff Daland Dusters, Inc. |
Huff-Daland was an American
aircraft manufacturer. Formed as Ogdensburg Aeroway Corp in 1920 in Ogdensburg, New York by Thomas Huff and Elliot Daland, its name was quickly changed to Huff-Daland Aero Corp and then in 1925 it was changed again to Huff-Daland Aero Company with its main headquarters in Bristol, Pennsylvania
. Huff-Daland produced a series of biplanes as trainers, observation planes, and light bombers for the U.S. Army and Navy.
From 1923-1924, Huff-Daland developed the first aircraft designed for crop dusting and began selling and promoting the new service through a subsidiary Huff Daland Dusters founded on March 2, 1925.C.E. Woolman, general manager, led a group of local investors to acquire the company's assets; the dusting subsidiary became a founding component of Delta Air Lines.[2][3][4]
In 1927, the corporation was taken over by
Curtiss V-1570-5
"Conqueror" engines. The Improved -B aircraft had better performance than the original, but still didn't compare favorably to the other aircraft of the period and never entered production.
Keystone merged with the
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
.
Aircraft models
- Huff-Daland HD-1B
- Huff-Daland HD-4
- Huff-Daland HD-8A
- Huff-Daland HD-9A
- Huff-Daland TA-2 biplane observation/trainer
- Huff-Daland TA-6, TW-5, AT-1, AT-2, HN-1, HN-2, HO-1 biplane observation/trainers (1923–1925)
- Huff-Daland LB-1 light bomber
- Huff-Daland XB-1 Twin-engine experimental military bomber biplane (1927)
- Huff-Daland XHB-1 experimental heavy bomber
- XLB-3 Twin-engine experimental military bomber biplane (1930)
References
- ^ Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America (1926). Aircraft year book 1925 (PDF). pp. 59–60, see also photograph before title page.
- ^ "Founding". www.deltamuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
- ^ Geoff Jones. Delta Air Lines: 75 Years of Airline Excellence. p. 10.
- ^ Lewis and Newton (1979). Delta: The History of an Airline. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press.
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