Canadian Vickers

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Canadian Vickers

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A Montreal shipyard set up to build submarines for the Royal Navy became Canada’s first serious aircraft maker, designed the bush-flying Vedette, and handed its Canso plant to the team that founded Canadair.

1911Založeno
Sloučeno do Canadair in 1944Postavení
9Letadlo v záznamu
1Vzdušné síly létající na jeho typech
Photo: Government of Ontario / Wikimedia Commons (OGL-ON)
ZeměKanadaZaloženo1911-06VelitelstvíMontreal, QuebecPostaveníSloučeno do Canadair in 1944
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Canadian Vickers: the company and the aircraft that made its name

Submarines across the Atlantic

Canadian Vickers was founded in June 1911 by the British arms giant Vickers, invited by Ottawa to build ships for the new Royal Canadian Navy. Its Montreal yard on the St Lawrence opened a huge floating dock in 1912, and in 1915 it assembled ten H-class submarines for the Royal Navy, the first submarines to cross the Atlantic under their own power. The yard went on to build Flower-class corvettes, frigates, destroyers and icebreakers, and one of its wartime corvettes later became Aristotle Onassis’s yacht Christina O.

Flying boats for the bush

Aircraft came in 1923, with a contract for Vickers Viking flying boats for the young Canadian Air Force. Canadian Vickers then designed its own: the Vedette, first flown on 4 November 1924, was the first aircraft designed and built in Canada for Canadian conditions, a small flying boat for forestry survey and fire patrol. Sixty were built, and provincial governments flew them over the northern forests for years. Licence work followed, including Avro 504Ns, Fairchilds, Bellancas and 40 Supermarine Stranraers, and the Northrop Delta, the first all-metal stressed-skin aircraft built in Canada.

The Canso plant and the birth of Canadair

In July 1941 Ottawa ordered Canso amphibians, the Canadian Catalina, and built a new plant at Cartierville for Canadian Vickers to run on its behalf. By 1944 the company asked to be relieved of the job. A group of former senior Canadian Vickers staff led by Benjamin W. Franklin formed Canadair, which took over the plant on 4 November 1944. Between 1923 and 1944 Canadian Vickers built more than 400 aircraft. The shipyard carried on until 1988.

A Montreal shipyard set up to build submarines for the Royal Navy became Canada’s first serious aircraft maker, designed the bush-flying Vedette, and handed its Canso plant to the team that founded Canadair.Canadian Vickers · verified 2026-10-03
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Canadian Vickers in numbers

Společnost

Stručně řečeno
Založeno 1911

  • Founded in Montreal by Vickers Sons & Maxim, June 1911
  • Sold to Canadian owners led by Frank Ross, 1926–1928
  • Aircraft operations passed to Canadair, November 1944
  • Shipbuilding ceased by 1988

Výroba

Nejznámější pro
Vedette and Canso

  • More than 400 aircraft, 1923–1944
  • Vedette flying boat, 60 built
  • Licence-built Viking, Avro 504N, Fairchild FC-2, Stranraer, Northrop Delta
  • PBV-1A Canso amphibians for the RCAF and USAAF

Dnes

Teď
Aircraft line lives on through Canadair and Bombardier

  • Cartierville plant became Canadair, later part of Bombardier

Čísla

Postaveno letadlo
more than 4001923–1944
Vedettes built
60
Cansos built
30 at Vickers plus 282 at Cartierville (s1); 380 PBV-1A (s3)
Letadlo

Every notable Canadian Vickers aircraft

Kanadská Vickers VedetteLight flying boat · first flight 1924 · 60 built

Photos: Government of Ontario / Wikimedia Commons (OGL-ON)

Letadlo Role První let Postavený Postavení Poznámka
Vickers Viking IV Hydroplán 6 V důchodu First aircraft contract, for the Canadian Air Force
Kanadská Vickers Vedette Light flying boat 1924 60 V důchodu Forestry survey and fire patrol
Canadian Vickers Varuna Hydroplán 8 V důchodu
Canadian Vickers Vancouver Hydroplán 6 V důchodu
Avro 504N Trenér 13 V důchodu Licence-built
Fokker Super Universal Bush transport 15 V důchodu Licence-built
Northrop Delta Transport and survey aircraft 20 V důchodu First all-metal stressed-skin aircraft built in Canada
Supermarine Stranraer Námořní hlídkový létající člun 40 V důchodu Licence-built
Canadian Vickers PBV-1A Canso Námořní hlídkový obojživelník 312–380 V důchodu RCAF Canso A and USAAF OA-10A
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Canadian Vickers aircraft in the world’s air forces

1 air forces in the Order of Battle fly or flew Canadian Vickers types. 0 z nich stále má jeden v provozu.

Letectvo V provozu Dříve létal
Královské kanadské letectvo Kanadská Vickers Vedette
Místa, lidé, rekordy

Where Canadian Vickers built, who led it, what it achieved

Továrny

  • Maisonneuve shipyard · Montreal, Quebec — Main works on the St Lawrence
  • Cartierville plant · Saint-Laurent, Montreal — Government Canso plant managed for Ottawa; became Canadair

Lidé

  • Benjamin W. Franklin · senior manager, Canadair founder
  • Frank Ross · owner from 1926–1928 — Merged Montreal Dry Dock into Canadian Vickers

Rekordy a prvenství

  • H-class submarines built in Montreal were the first to cross the Atlantic under their own power
  • Vedette: first aircraft designed and built in Canada to a Canadian specification
  • Northrop Delta: first all-metal stressed-skin aircraft built in Canada
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Canadian Vickers, year by year

1911

Canadian Vickers established in Montreal

1912

Floating dry dock opens

1915

Ten H-class submarines launched for the Royal Navy

1923

First aircraft contract: Vickers Vikings for the Canadian Air Force

1924

Vedette first flight

1928

Merged with Montreal Dry Dock under Frank Ross

1941

Contract to build Canso amphibians

1944

Canadair takes over the Cartierville aircraft plant

1988

Shipbuilding ceases

Rodokmen

Before and after Canadian Vickers

Přišel předtímVickersparent company, 1911Read the Vickers pagePřišel poCanadairtook over the aircraft plant, 4 November 1944Přečtěte si stránku Canadairu
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Everything people ask about Canadian Vickers

What aircraft did Canadian Vickers design?
Its own designs included the Vedette, Varuna, Vancouver and several one-offs; the Vedette was the most successful, with 60 built.
How is Canadian Vickers related to Canadair?
Canadair was formed by former senior Canadian Vickers staff and took over the government-owned Canso plant at Cartierville in November 1944.
Did Canadian Vickers build Catalinas?
Yes, as the PBV-1A Canso for the RCAF and the OA-10A for the USAAF.
How many aircraft did Canadian Vickers build?
More than 400 between 1923 and 1944.

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