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[rb1957]

from Flight today ...
"De Havilland eyes restarting Sherpa and Dash 8 production as DHC-515 programme progresses ...
The company’s vice-president Neil Sweeney says the Calgary firm is considering bringing back its DHC-8 regional airliner and its Shorts Sherpa military transport."

"it's Shorts Sherpa" ... really ?? I don't think that the Sherpa has a TCCA TC ... let alone being a de Havilland design ...

As for the Dash 8 ... sorry, crushed by ATR ... literally crushed.

 

[verymadmac]

Interesting, putting the 515 into production would have required building a not insignificant capacity regarding restoring older design and associated data to modern production standards. Rolling straight into another design / production restoration would make sense, in terms of reducing the start up costs. I would have thought that the Sherpa would fit the their market segment (unpressurized bush planes) better than the Dash 8 (Dash 7 sure). I see they have held the TC for the Sherpa for 5 years.

 

[MintJulep]

let alone being a de Havilland design ...

Shorts and DHC are both part of Bombardier, "all in the family".

Or at least they were, until the Belfast factory was sold to Spirit.

Not the designs apparently.

 

[WKTaylor]

This reminds me...

The General Dynamics F-16 is now the Lockheed-Martin F-16

The McDonnell-Douglas AV8, F-15, F-18, T-45, C-17 MD80s DC10 etc... are NOW the Boeing AV8, F-15, F-18, T-45, C-17, 717, etc...

 

[verymadmac]

Wil, you forget the classic Boeing C-47 which gets a bit confusing with the Boeing CH-47.

So what aircraft has been produced under the largest number of company names?
I would suggest possibly a Beechcraft twin: Beechcraft to Raytheon, then Hawker Beechcraft before back to Beechcraft owned by Cessnas parent company Textron.

 

[rb1957]

speaking of Boeing, shortly after their take over of Douglas, there were pictures of the Boeing DC-3 ...

And, yes, I know Shorts was part of the Bombardier "family", but the Sherpa was never a de Havilland design. I know Bombardier did a number on the "out of production" aircraft they had accumulated; at de Havilland we put DHC-2 thru -7 with this out of production team and eventually these ended up with Viking (and so returned to the fold eventually). Maybe the Shorts designs too ? IDK. Viking did a great job with the S400 Twin Otter.

 

[WKTaylor]

Of course the VN era Vertol CH-47 Shithook long ago became the Boeing CH-47 Chinook

or the VN era Hughes UH-6 LOH which is now the Boeing UH-6 or AH-6 Cayuse...

or the Hughes AH-64 which is now the Boeing AH-64 Apache...

or the Ted Smith Aerostar... which became the Piper Aerostar...