Huff-Daland Aero Corporation
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| Successor | Keystone Aircraft Corp |
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Key people | Thomas Henri Huff, Elliot Daland, George G. Post, Lt. Harold Harris, |
| Subsidiaries | Huff Daland Dusters, Inc. |
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 the 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.
In 1924, Huff-Deland developed the first application of a crop duster in service with a subsidiary Huff Daland Dusters formed to run operations.[1] Through mergers and acquisitions, the company became a founding component of Delta Air Lines.[2] 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. A single example of the Huff-Daland XB-1 bomber became the Keystone XB-1B, after its original Packard 2A-1500 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
- Huff-Daland HD-1B
- Huff-Daland HD-4
- Huff-Daland HD-9A
- Huff-Daland TA-2 biplane observation/trainer
- Huff-Daland TA-6, TW-5, AT-1, AT-2, HN-1, HN-2, HO-1 biplane observation/trainers (1923–1925)
- Huff-Daland LB-1 light bomber
- Huff-Daland XB-1 Twin-engine experimental military bomber biplane (1927)
- Huff-Daland XHB-1 experimental heavy bomber
- XLB-3 Twin-engine experimental military bomber biplane (1930)