Air-Britain Archive 1997-03 / Extracts

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: CF-GMO

The prototype Found Brothers FBA-1A CF-GMO-X.
Flying, Oct 1949: * p.41 - Announced the 4-seat Found Brothers FBA-1A prototype. F/f was on 13.7.49.
Flying, Oct 1949: * p. 41 - The Found Brothers FBA-1A was designed as a bush utility aircraft by N K and S R Found in 1945/6. Construction was completed at the Toronto Flying Club premises at Malton, Ontario, from which the only example first flew on 13.7.49. Registered CF-GMO-X, the 2-seat c/n 1 was flight tested for about twenty hours before being retired in 1950. It was superseded by the four-seat FBA-2A although this was not completed and flown until 11.8.60. It then went into production as the FBA-2C of which a further 26 had been completed when the company closed in 1968.
By great coincidence, the Toronto Star of 3.6.97 carried a story about N K "Bud" Found's intention to put the FBA-2C Bush Hawk back into production at Georgian Bay Airport. Eleven firm orders and 25 options have been received and the first aircraft is expected to fly before the end of this year.