Australia
Cockatoo Dockyard & Engineering Co Ltd. opened an experimental aviation department in the early 1930s, under the guidance of Wg. Cdr. L. J. Wackett, formerly in the RAAF. In 1933 designed and built a twin-engined monoplane, the Codock, for Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, who had made the first Pacific air crossing in 1928. A six-seat monoplane of the cantilever-wing Fokker type, it was powered by two 165 hp Napier Javelin engines.
Manufacturer
Cobianchi, Mario
Mario Cobianchi was a Bolognese designer and draftsman, who had Sicilian-born engineer Franz Miller build his 1909 biplane.
Cobelavia / Compagnie Beige d’Aviation
Compagnie Beige d’Aviation in the mid-1960s built Nipper single-seat ultralight aircraft at Kortessem.
Coates, J.R.
Hitchen
UK
Built light aircraft 1950 to 1970s.
Coanda, Henri
Henri Coandă, born June 7, 1886 in Bucharest, son of Gen. Coanda the Rumanian War Minister, had trained as an engineer in France and was an artist of merit as well. He had studied under Eiffel, whose wind-tunnel at Auteuil was the first to be built in Europe.
At the Paris Salon of 1910, Coanda exhibited a novel biplane whose engine drove, not an airscrew, but a small-diameter ducted fan. It is uncertain whether this biplane ever flew, as has been claimed, but Coanda deserves due credit for originating this form of propulsion unit. Another of Coanda’s projects was a tandem-wing monoplane with a submerged engine driving an airscrew mounted half-way along a streamlined circular-section fuselage.
Coandă joined Bristol in January 1912 and his first design for Bristol was a two-seat monoplane trainer, a development of the Bristol Prier Monoplane, controlled by wing warping.
Coandă died on November 25, 1972 in Bucharest.
CNIAR / IAR / Industria Aeronautica Romania / ICA Brasov / IAR-SA Brasov / Regia Autonoma Industria / Aeronautica Romana / Intreprinderea de Constructii Aeronautice / URMV-3 / Sovromtractor
In 1925 was established in Brason the first large Romanian aircraft named “Societate Anonima Industria Aeronautica Romana” (IAR) to build aircraft and aero engines. Between 1925 and 1945 this company built around 1000 aircraft of 25 different types of which eight were under foreign licence including the Potez 25, Morane-Saulnier 35, Fleet 10-G, PZL11 c and XXIV. Indigenous designs included the IAR.15 single-seat fighter monoplane.
The most known aircraft entirely conceived and built by this company was the IAR-80 combat plane, ranked the fourth in the world at the time of its appearance in 1939.
Renamed Regia Autonoma Industria Aeronautica Romana in 1940, but still using IAR for types.
Came under joint Soviet/Romanian control as Sovromtractor from 1946, with Brasov works known as URMV-3 between 1950 and 1959. Only a team of enthusiastic specialists led by Iosef Silimon continued to design, build, and repair light aircraft.
Aircraft development at Brasov by mid-1956 included IAR 811 piston trainer (first flown 1949), IAR 813 two-seat lightplane, IAR 814 twin-engined transport of 1953 and IAR 817 single-engined general-purpose light transport of 1955. Aircraft from LFIL factory at Reghin included RG-6 tandem two-seat sports and training monoplane.
The ICA-Brasov or Intreprinderea de Constructii Aeronautice Brasov (Aircraft Construction Factory Brasov) is responsible for all sailplane development and production in Romania, and their principal designer is Professor losif Silimon, who has created a long series of sailplanes that are widely used in the national clubs; these are prefixed by the letters ‘IS’ which form the Professor’s initials.
In 1968 it was decided to restore the the aircraft factory under the new name “ICA Brasov”. Undertook repair and overhaul of light aircraft; built aircraft of its own design, such as the IAR-824 six seat general-purpose light aircraft and IS-28/IS-29 sailplanes, manufactured Aerospatiale SA 316B Alouette III helicopters under license, participated in license-construction of the Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander and carried out series production of nationally designed aircraft.
In 1976 the IS28M2 motor glider began manufacture, and in 1977 the tandem two-seat IS28M1 motor glider prototype had been completed, from which the IAR-34 was derived.
Name changed to IAR-SA Brasov in 1991. Has built Aerospatiale Alouette helicopter as IAR 316B (280), Russian Ka-126 helicopter, and French Puma helicopter (as IAR 330L Puma) under license, with Puma 2000 upgraded IAR 330L model offered with more engine power, Hellfire antiarmor missiles and advanced avionics among changes. Has agreement with Eurocopter to construct up to 80 AS 350BA and AS 355N helicopters. Made agreement with Bell Helicopter Textron of U.S.A. to license build 96 AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopters for the Romanian armed forces as AH-1RO Draculas, with Bell taking a majority shareholding in the privatizing company as part of the agreement. Kraiova works to license-manufacture Russian Beriev Be-32K. Own products include IAR 46 two-seat lightplane (first flown 1993), IAR-35 glider, and IS-28 series of gliders/motorgliders.
2008: IAR Brasov No. 1, Aeroportului Street P.O. Box 198 Brasov 2200 Romania
CNA / Compagnia Nazionale Aeronautica
Italy
Compagnia Nazionale Aeronautica was a manufacturer of aircraft and aircraft engines established in Italy in 1920 by Count Giovanni Bonmartini. Together with a group of World War I veteran pilots, he operated a flying school in Rome from a field that would eventually be developed into Littorio airport. For the next decade or so, CNA also developed their own aircraft and engines to power them. Bonmartini had also worked on an advanced racing motorcycle engine, the GBR in another partnership, and eventually CNA acquired the rights to this as well.
When they moved their Roman base from Cerveteri to Littorio in 1928, they built a factory in which they could produce both aircraft and aircraft engines; some were designed by other companies, some by themselves.
Mainly a license builder of others’ designs, but in mid/late 1930s own products included C.N.A.15 low-wing and C.N.A.25 high-wing four-seat cabin monoplanes (both CNA-engined).
In 1934 Bonmartini sold CNA to Caproni. In turn, Caproni sold rights to the GBR engine to Gilera, who developed it as the Rondine.
During 1939-1940 said to have produced PM1 two-seat high-wing monoplane with flat-four engine.
Aircraft Types:
CNA Beta
CNA Eta
CNA Teta
CNA Merrah
CNA 15
CNA 25
CNA PM.1
Engines:
CNA C
CNA C.II
CNA C.VI
CNA C-7
CNA D-4
CMV
1983: C.M.V. Company, 23 avenue Marceou, 75116 Paris, France. Hang glider and trike builder
CMASA / Costruzioni Meccaniche Aeronautiche SA
Italy
Costruzioni Meccaniche Aeronautiche SA; previously SA Industrie Aeromarittime Gallinari; established 1922 at Marina di Pisa as Societa di Costruzioni di Pisa to license-build Dornier Wal flying-boats. Title CMASA adopted in 1930; became subsidiary of Fiat same year. Production included G.8 two-seat aerobatic training/ touring biplane (1934); M.F.4 radial-engined flying-boat (1933); M.F.5 (development of Wal); M.F.6 two-seat fighter/reconnaissance floatplane; M.F.10 two-seat fighter/reconnaissance shipborne flying-boat (1935); BGA twin-engined floatplane/bomber (1936); and twin-engined, twin-float R.S.14 reconnaissance seaplane. The latter was the most successful, serving throughout Second World War. Assisted also in production of Fiat fighters in late 1930s/early 1940s. Activities suspended on Italian Armistice (September 1943). The C.S. high-speed monoplane and J.S.54 six-engined civil flying-boat were then under development, but never produced.
Clutton
Eric Clutton, 92 Newlands St., Stoke-on-Trent, 5T4 2RF, England.
Designer of the Clutton Fred in thee 1950s and 60s.
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