Canada
Established 1937 at Hamilton, Ontario, to build American Piper Cubs. Early 1931 obtained license to build Harlow PJC-2 all-metal monoplane. New factory at Hamilton was completed 1940. Production resumed in 1945 of Canadian variant known as Cub Prospector; company does not appear to have survived for more than a year or so after this.
Manufacturer
CSN
1996: 510 NW 46th Terrace, /plantation, Florida, USA
Corby CJ-1 Starlet builder.
CSIR
South Africa Council for Scientific and Industrial Research developed SARA II (first flown 1972) and SARA III light autogyros.
Crusader Aircraft Corp
USA
Between 1933-1934 built Crusader AF-4 four-seat cabin monoplane with two Menasco in-line engines and twinbooms carrying twin tail.
Crown Aircraft Corp
USA
Originally the Aircraft Division of Crown Motor Carriage Company. Produced to direct order in 1930 the B-3 Custombuilt two-seat sporting/training biplane.
Crouch-Bolas
C-B Aircraft Co
Pawtucket RI.
USA
Built the Dragon IV engine in 1932 and Dragonfly aircraft.
Crosley Aircraft Co
USA
Established in 1929 at Cincinnati, Ohio, this company was a subsidiary of the Crosley Radio Corporation. It produced two- and three-seat open-cockpit high-wing monoplanes known respectively as the Crosley C-1 and C-2. These two models pioneered the advantages of interchangeability, the complete wing, tail surfaces, landing gear, engines and engine mountings being common to both.
Croses
France
Avions Croses produced one of the original and practical modern microlights in 1961 as the EC-3 Pouplume, with pivoting forward wing and fixed rear wing as a Pou-du- Ciel type; still available for home construction via plans. First flew in 1965 the two-seat tandem-wing EC-6 Criquet, available as plans, with concept developed also into three-seat EC-8 Tourisme and six-seat EC-9 Paras Cargo.
Crosby Aviation Corp Ltd
UK
At Knutsford, Cheshire, Crosby began producing (around 1974) factory-built versions of the Andreasson BA-4B single-seat homebuilt biplane; also marketed plans and kits.
Crosbie, Richard
Richard Crosbie spent much of his childhood devising peculiar contraptions at his family home in Baltinglass, Co Wicklow. By 1783, he was a student at Trinity College, Dublin, listening to the tale of two Frenchmen who spent 25 minutes elevated in the sky within the basket of a hot air balloon.
Crosbie vowed he would one day cross the Irish Sea. His vehicle of choice would be a rubberised silk-covered balloon, filled with hydrogen.
To raise funds for his adventure, Crosbie held an exhibition in Ranelagh Gardens in Dublin. For a small fee, the public was invited to examine both his balloon and the “aeronautic chariot” which would carry himself, his equipment, his scientific instruments and the ballast.
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