The original company, Noorduyn Aircraft Limited, was formed in early 1933 by Mr. R.B.C. Noorduyn, F.R.Ae.D., A.I.F.Ae.Sc., and a successor company Noorduyn Aviation Limited, was later established in 1934. Mr. Noorduyn had been associated with six different aircraft manufacturers in Europe and the North American continent. During the later 1930's Norsemen began to appear in the Northwest Territories, Northern Quebec and Ontario, wherever pioneers were breaking open the frontier by air. It soon proved itself to be the air freighter by excellence; an aircraft of Canadian design for an essentially Canadian job. The Norseman first made its name doing the job for which it was expressly designed, that helping to open up and supply the Canadian North.
 
 

The sturdy Norseman was the first Canadian-designed, Canadian-built aircraft to be sold extensively outside Canada, serving in a score of countries around the world.

When the war began, the Norseman proved itself equally adaptable to the transport purposes of the world under arms. During 1942 a modernized version of the Norseman was accepted by the U.S. Army for utility transport purposes, on wheels, skis and floats. When the contract was terminated in 1945, 759 Norsemen had been delivered to the U.S. Forces.

   

In 1953, Bob Noorduyn and several of his old associates, including Austin Latremouille, bought back the Norseman licence and went into the Norseman business. Just about that time, the Department od Transport declared that any airplane design more than 10 years old was obsolete. The new company would be permitted to complete the five new fuselages it had inherited from Canadian Car and provide maintenance and spare parts for the existing planes.

In the mid-sixties, with a change in market demands, our company made a transition to manufacturing aircraft interior components. We put the same technology in our products as we did in the manufacturing of our aircraft.

 
 

We specialize in custom manufacturing products and pride ourselves on meeting our clients lead times.

         

Pictures courtesy of Norduyn Inc.