Columbia Aircraft Corp / Columbia Airliners Inc

USA
During 1928-1929 produced the Triad high-wing wheel/float amphibian at Valley Stream, Long Island, NY, at which time the company was known as Columbia Airliners Inc. Name changed to Columbia Aircraft Corp and later built 330 Grumman J2F-6 Ducks for the USN. Two Grumman designed XJL-1 (Duck replacement) prototypes were built. The company was taken over in early 1946 as part of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation; it went into liquidation in 1948.

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