Huff-Daland was an American
aircraft manufacturer. Formed as Ogdensburg Aeroway Corp in 1920 in
Ogdensburg, New York by Thomas Huff and Elliot Daland, its name was quickly changed to Huff-Daland Aero Corp and then in 1925 it was changed again to Huff-Daland Aero Company with its main headquarters in
Bristol, Pennsylvania. Huff-Daland produced a series of biplanes as trainers, observation planes, and light bombers for the U.S. Army and Navy.
From 1923-1924, Huff-Daland developed the first aircraft designed for crop dusting and began selling and promoting the new service through a subsidiary Huff Daland Dusters founded on March 2, 1925. Though acquisitions beginning in 1928, the dusting subsidiary became a founding component of
Delta Air Lines.
In 1927, the corporation was taken over by
Hayden, Stone & Company, a New York City brokerage firm and in the course of the merger it became the Huff-Daland Division of the
Keystone Aircraft Corporation
Keystone Aircraft Corporation was an early American airplane manufacturer.
History
Headquartered in Bristol, Pennsylvania, the company was formed as "Ogdensburg Aeroway Corp" in 1920 by Thomas Huff and Elliot Daland, but its name was quickly ...
. A single example of the
Huff-Daland XB-1 bomber became the
Keystone XB-1B, after its original
Packard 2A-1500
The Packard 1A-1500 was an American 12-cylinder liquid-cooled 60-degree Vee piston aircraft engine designed in 1924.Gunston 1989, p.109. Test flown in the second prototype Douglas XO-2 it proved to be unreliable. Only 29 engines w ...
engines were replaced with
Curtiss V-1570-5 "Conqueror" engines. The Improved -B aircraft had better performance than the original, but still didn't compare favorably to the other aircraft of the period and never entered production.
Keystone merged with the
Loening Company in 1928. By 1931, Keystone had become the Keystone Aircraft Division of the
Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
Aircraft models
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Huff-Daland HD-1B
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Huff-Daland HD-4
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Huff-Daland HD-8A
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Huff-Daland HD-9A
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Huff-Daland TA-2 biplane observation/trainer
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Huff-Daland TA-6, TW-5, AT-1, AT-2, HN-1, HN-2, HO-1 biplane observation/trainers (1923–1925)
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Huff-Daland LB-1 light bomber
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Huff-Daland XB-1 Twin-engine experimental military bomber biplane (1927)
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Huff-Daland XHB-1 experimental heavy bomber
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XLB-3 Twin-engine experimental military bomber biplane (1930)
References
External links
Aerofiles
{{Keystone aircraft
Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Companies based in New York (state)