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Atlas Aviation

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Registered as a private company at Kempton Park, Transvaal, in 1964 to establish an aircraft industry in South Africa, jointly with the Industrial Development Corporation. Completed manufacture of Impala (M.B.326M) under Aermacchi license. Developed C4M Kudu utility STOL light transport, first flown February 1974. First flew in 1986 its Cheetah multirole fighter, fighter-bomber, and reconnaissance aircraft conversion of the Mirage III for the SAAF, allowing initial operational capability in 1987. ACE all-composite turboprop trainer first flew April 1991 but later canceled. Developed Rooivalk attack helicopter, Puma gunship, and Oryx. Company also held marketing rights for several foreign aircraft and undertook extensive maintenance and overhaul work for SAAF. Merged with Simera in April 1996 under new Denel Aviation name, having been a division of Denel (Pty) Ltd. within the latter’s Aerospace Group.
1995: A division of Denel (Pty) Ltd, PO Box 11, Atlas Rd, Kempton Park 1620, South Africa.
Earlier Denel (Pty.) Ltd. encompassed Atlas Aviation and Simera as divisions of its Aerospace Group. Took the Denel name in April 1996 after merging Atlas and Simera, with new subdivisions created as Tactical Aircraft Support, Transport Aircraft Support, Aircraft Manufacturing and Airmotive. Cooperating with DaimlerChrysler of Germany on AT-2000 Mako program. Cooperates with Aerospatiale of France on aircraft and missiles. Full range of maintenance, repair, and modification facilities, plus component manufacturing. Continuing programs of former Atlas include Cheetah C and D fighter conversion of Mirage III, development and production of AH-2A Rooivalk antiarmour/ attack helicopter (first flown February 1990 and for delivery from 1999), development of the Cirstel (Combined Infra-Red Suppression and Tail rotor Elimination system) tail-rotorless conversion of an Alouette helicopter as a technology demonstrator (first flown 1998), development and production of a variant of the SA 330 Puma helicopter as the Oryx, and development of a modular weapon suite for the Puma helicopter to convert it into a gunship.

Atlantic Aircraft Corp.

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Fokker rented the Witteman-Lewis aircraft factory at Teterboro, together with the adjoining airfield at Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, USA. Beginning active operations in May 1923, remodeling 100 D.H.4s, and holding patent rights and license to build Fokker aircraft in USA. In May 1924 a new company was formed, the Atlantic Corporation, with Lorillard Spencer as President and Robert B. C. Noorduyn as General Manager.
Largely associated with Anthony Fokker, who went to USA in 1922 and played a part in founding the company at Hasbrouck Heights, NJ. Fokker was also design consultant to other American companies.
The AO-1 was a two-seater of characteristic Fokker biplane form for artillery observation. The XLB-2 (officially prefixed Atlantic-Fokker or Atlantic (Fokker)) of 1927/28 was first twin-engined US Air Corps monoplane bomber. The type not adopted despite Fokker’s experience with large civil monoplanes. The C-2 and C-2A of late 1920s also were typical Fokker-type high-wing cantilever monoplanes.

ASW Flight Systems Inc.

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1983: Florida, USA.
At Sun’n’Fun in March 1983 at Lakeland, Florida, there appeared in the United States ASW Flight System Inc with an address in California. The publicity handouts distributed by this company at Lakeland showed various photographs of different machines called by names other than those by which they were known in Europe. As well as two hang gliders (SC Standard Competition and SC IC Super Competition) previously produced by ASW in Switzerland and the Microstar itself, recognised were the Libellule prototype, designed in 1981 by a Frenchman, Bernard Broc, and renamed Libelle on this document, and the G 11 Motodelta hybrid control machine with all laminated trike unit, created by the Frenchman Marc Geiser and renamed Motorstar.