MDC Max Dätwyler AG is a Swiss manufacturing company established at
Dietlikon in 1943, and which relocated to
Bleienbach in 1951. Originally, the firm undertook the manufacture and repair of tools and machinery. Aircraft maintenance became an area of specialty, and Dätwyler built two aircraft of its own in the 1960s (based on existing designs by other manufacturers) before developing its own design, the
Swiss Trainer that flew in 1983 and has since entered mass production in Malaysia. Dätwyler's main business, however, became machinery for the printing industry, branching into electromechanical and
laser engraving
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Aircraft
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Datwyler Trailer
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SME Aero Tiga
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The SME Aero Tiga, originally the Dätwyler MD-3 Swiss Trainer is a trainer aircraft developed in Switzerland through the 1960s and 70s, and which first flew in 1983.
History
In 1993, all rights to the design were acquired by SME Aeros ...
References
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Company website
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Manufacturing companies of Switzerland
Aircraft manufacturers of Switzerland
Companies based in the canton of Bern