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Canadian Aerodrome Company

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Aircraft manufacturer

Canadian Aerodrome Company
Company type	Private
Industry	Aviation
Predecessor	Aerial Experiment Association
Headquarters	Baddeck, Nova Scotia , Canada
Area served	Canada
Key people	Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin J.A.D. McCurdy
Products	Aircraft
Owner	Casey Baldwin J.A.D. McCurdy

TheCanadian Aerodrome Company was the first commercial enterprise in theBritish Empire to design and manufacture aircraft. The company was formed following the dissolution ofAlexander Graham Bell'sAerial Experiment Association. The company was established byFrederick W. "Casey" Baldwin andJ.A.D. McCurdy in 1909, with the financial backing of Alexander Graham Bell. The company was headquartered inBaddeck, Nova Scotia at the Kite House at Bell'sBeinn Bhreagh estate.^[1]

The Canadian Aerodrome Company manufactured aircraft based on theAEA Silver Dart, producing theBaddeck No. 1, and theBaddeck No. 2 as well as a separate commissioned design, theHubbard Monoplane (Hubbard II) before the company was dissolved in 1910.^[1]^{[N 1]}

^TheBell Oionus Itriplane was also designed and constructed by the team of Baldwin and McCurdy at the Bell Experimental Laboratory under a separate arrangement with Bell, who hired them to design and construct the last of his aviation designs, a mix oftetrahedral kite and aircraft, prior to the formation of the Canadian Aerodrome Company.^[2]

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Life and
family

Family	Alexander Melville Bell Chichester Bell David Fairchild Graham Fairchild Edwin S. Grosvenor Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor Gilbert M. Grosvenor Mabel H. Grosvenor Melville Bell Grosvenor Gardiner Greene Hubbard Mabel Gardiner Hubbard Kendall Myers

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Tributes

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History
Places and buildings	Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site Baddeck Academy Baddeck (Guneden) Airport Baddeck River Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia Bell Bay Golf Club Bras d'Or House Bras d'Or Yacht Club Gilbert H. Grosvenor Hall Kidston Island Kidston Island Lighthouse St. Mark's Masonic Lodge Saint Peter's and Saint John's Anglican Church Spectacle Island Game Sanctuary Telegraph House Uisge Ban Falls Uisge Ban Falls Provincial Park Victoria County Court House
Articles of interest	Aerial Experiment Association Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing Celtic Colours Cabot Trail Relay Race Canadian Aerodrome Company
Ships and aircraft related to Baddeck	AEA Cygnet AEA Silver Dart Bell Boatyard Bell Oionus I Canadian Aerodrome Baddeck No. 1 and No. 2 HD-4 Hubbard Monoplane HMCSBaddeck (K147) HMCSBaddeck (R-103)
Notable residents	Frederick Walker Baldwin Alexander Graham Bell H. Percy Blanchard Charles James Campbell Rachel Davis Simon Gibbons, Reverend Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor Mabel H. Grosvenor Mabel Gardiner Hubbard George Kennan William Kidston Moses E. Kiley Carleton L. MacMillan Arthur Williams McCurdy David McCurdy John Alexander Douglas McCurdy William F. McCurdy John Archibald McDonald James Charles McKeagney Aulay MacAulay Morrison Kendall Myers Michael A. Newton George W. Rice Barclay Edmund Tremaine Jessica Wong

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