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The Canadian Vickers Vedette was the first aircraft designed and built in Canada to meet a specification for Canadian conditions. It was a single-engine biplane flying boat purchased to meet a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) demand for a smaller aircraft than the Vickers Viking with a much greater rate of climb, to be suitable for forestry survey and fire protection work.
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Canadian Vickers ordered the construction of a large floating drydock, which was opened in 1912. [1] [3] Due to the establishment of Canadian Vickers, Montreal became one of Canada's leading shipbuilding centres. [1] The shipyard's first full year of operation was 1914, a year marked by the beginning of World War I. [2]
The Canadian Vickers Vedette was developed for forestry patrol in remote areas; a job that previously was done by canoe and took weeks could be accomplished in hours, revolutionizing forestry conservation. Although successful, flying-boat amphibians like the Vedette ultimately proved less versatile than floatplane amphibians and are no longer ...
Canadian Vickers Vedette 1924 forestry patrol flying boat, 60 built; CANT 7 1924 flying boat trainer, 34 built; Ikarus ŠM 1924 flying boat trainer, 42 built; Macchi M.26 1924 flying boat fighter, 2 built; CANT 10 1925 flying boat airliner, 18 built; Rohrbach Ro VII Robbe 1925 flying boat, 3 built; Savoia-Marchetti S.59 1925 reconnaissance ...
The company was located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [4] Reid was given the plans for an aircraft started by R. K. Pierson who worked for Vickers Limited, the British parent company of Canadian Vickers Limited. [5] Reid, together with a man named Newall, developed the design into the aircraft known as the Vedette. [4] "The design and production ...