Founded in Montreal in January 1929 by a merger of the
Reid Aircraft Company (founded 1928) and the Curtiss
Aeroplane & Motor Co of New York. W. T. Reid, formerly
chief designer of Bristol Aeroplane Company, had
founded Reid Aircraft to build a light biplane of his own
design. This was produced by the new company as the
Curtiss-Reid Rambler, powered by a license-built Cirrus
engine, and at least six of these aircraft were supplied to
the RCAF. Opened flying school in 1930. Built also the
Courier, a single-seat lightweight mail-carrying monoplane.
