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BDC Aero Industrie Inc.
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryAerospace
Foundedcirca 2005
Headquarters,
ProductsFixed wing aircraft
Websitewww.puma-aircraft.com

BDC Aero Industrie Inc. is a Canadian aircraft manufacturer based in Lachute, Quebec. The company specializes in the manufacture of fixed wing aircraft in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the Canadian advanced ultralight, limited and the American light-sport aircraft categories. At one time they also offered kits for amateur construction.[1][2][3]

Products

The company's current production aircraft is the BDC Aero Puma, a light-sport aircraft based on the Pluto design by the Italian aircraft designer Antonio Bortolanza. The aircraft was designed in the 1980s and originally called the Pluto and later the Drakken, which is Swedish for "dragon". BDC has produced a further developed version since 2005 under the Puma name.[1]<ref name="Hist"/

Aircraft

Summary of aircraft built by BDC Aero Industrie
Model name First flight Number built Type
BDC Aero Puma 2008 6 Two-seat, low-wing, light-sport aircraft

References

  1. ^ a b Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12, page 71. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ISSN 1368-485X
  2. ^ Transport Canada (26 August 2015). "Listing of Models Eligible to be Registered as Advanced Ultra-Light Aeroplanes (AULA)". Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Puma-Aircraft History". Puma-aircraft.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-15. Retrieved 2012-08-27.

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