Elmwood Aviation Explained

Elmwood Aviation
Type:Privately held company
Foundation:1980s
Founder:Ron Mason
Location City:Frankford, Ontario
Location Country:Canada
Industry:Aerospace
Products:Aircraft plans

Elmwood Aviation is a Canadian aircraft manufacturer, founded by aircraft designer Ron Mason and based in Frankford, Ontario (formerly in Belleville, Ontario). The company specializes in the design of light aircraft for amateur construction, especially for missionary aviation use. The Christavia aircraft series name means "Christ-in-Aviation".[1] [2] [3] [4]

Plans are marketed by Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co as well as directly by Elmwood Aviation.[5]

All of Mason's designs use his own custom airfoil profile.[6] The Christavia Mk I first flew in 1983 and over 350 had been completed and flown by 2002.[1]

Aircraft

+ align=center style="background:#BFD7FF"Summary of aircraft built by Elmwood Aviation
Model nameFirst flightNumber builtType
Christavia Mk I1983350 (2002)Two seat tandem amateur-built aircraft
Christavia Mk IITwo seat side-by-side configuration amateur-built aircraft
Christavia Mk IV250 (1998)Four seat amateur-built aircraft

Notes and References

  1. Downey, Julia: 2003 Plans Aircraft Directory, Kitplanes, Volume 20, Number 1, January 2003, page 20. Primedia Publications. ISSN 0891-1851
  2. Experimenter. Project Patrol George Stulgatis’ Christavia Mk I.
  3. Air Progress. April 1991. Building a Christavia. 30.
  4. Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition, page 150. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998.
  5. Web site: Christavia. 13 October 2014. Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co. 2013.
  6. Web site: The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage. 13 October 2014. Lednicer. David. 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100420012244/http://www.ae.illinois.edu/m-selig/ads/aircraft.html. 20 April 2010. dead.