Huff-Daland
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| Predecessor | Ogdensburg Aeroway Corp |
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| Successor | Keystone Aircraft Corp |
Key people | Thomas Henri Huff, Elliot Daland, George G. Post, Lt. Harold Harris, |
| Subsidiaries | Huff Daland Dusters, Inc. |
Huff-Dalandwas an Americanaircraft manufacturer.Formed asOgdensburg Aeroway Corpin 1920 inOgdensburg, New Yorkby Thomas Huff and Elliot Daland, its name was quickly changed toHuff-Daland Aero Corpand then in 1925 it was changed again toHuff-Daland Aero Companywith its main headquarters inBristol, 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 subsidiaryHuff Daland Dustersfounded on March 2, 1925.[1]C.E. Woolman,general manager, led a group of local investors to acquire the company's assets; the dusting subsidiary became a founding component ofDelta Air Lines.[2][3][4]
In 1927, the corporation was taken over byHayden, Stone & Company,a New York City brokerage firm and in the course of the merger it became the Huff-Daland Division of theKeystone Aircraft Corporation.A single example of theHuff-Daland XB-1bomber became theKeystone XB-1B,after its originalPackard 2A-1500engines were replaced withCurtiss 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 theLoening Companyin 1928. By 1931, Keystone had become the Keystone Aircraft Division of theCurtiss-Wright Corporation.
Aircraft models
[edit]- Huff-Daland HD-1B
- Huff-Daland HD-4
- Huff-Daland HD-8A
- Huff-Daland HD-9A
- Huff-Daland TA-2biplane observation/trainer
- Huff-Daland TA-6, TW-5, AT-1, AT-2, HN-1, HN-2, HO-1biplane observation/trainers (1923–1925)
- Huff-Daland LB-1light bomber
- Huff-Daland XB-1Twin-engine experimental military bomber biplane (1927)
- Huff-Daland XHB-1experimental heavy bomber
- XLB-3Twin-engine experimental military bomber biplane (1930)
References
[edit]- ^Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America (1926).Aircraft year book 1925(PDF).pp. 59–60, see also photograph before title page. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2021-11-03.Retrieved2019-10-02.
- ^"Founding".deltamuseum.org.Retrieved2019-10-02.
- ^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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