Industry Aerospace Website www.puma-aircraft.com Founded 2005 | Products Fixed wing aircraft Headquarters Lachute Type Privately held company | |
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BDC Aero Industrie Inc. is a Canadian aircraft manufacturer based in Lachute, Quebec. The company specializes in the manufacture of fixed wing aircraft in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the Canadian advanced ultralight, limited and the American light-sport aircraft categories. At one time they also offered kits for amateur construction.
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The company's current production aircraft is the BDC Aero Puma, a light-sport aircraft based on the Pluto design by the Italian aircraft designer Antonio Bortolanza. The aircraft was designed in the 1980s and originally called the Pluto and later the Drakken, which is Swedish for "dragon". BDC has produced a further developed version since 2005 under the Puma name.
As of September 2015 the Puma does not appear on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of approved light-sport aircraft, although it is an approved Transport Canada Advanced Ultralight.
In September 2105 the company had one of its aircraft registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration and four in Canada registered with Transport Canada.
The company is also developing a five-seat, composite, amphibious turboprop to be designated the PX3000.