With a good supply of airframes post WW2, the Torrance CA. based Transland Aircraft had a steady business converting surplus aircraft into crop dusters. They subsequently developed their own design, the Ag-1 and by 1954 the Ag-2, the prototype of which made its first flight in October 1956. Too expensive to compete with the war surplus conversions, only three were built, N8232H which first flew in 1959 being the last. The prototype survives in New Zealand having spent many years in Uruguay but N8232H crashed in Panama in August 1963.

DND photo.

The first of 200 CF-104 Starfighter supersonic strike-reconnaissance aircraft for the RCAF was rolled out on schedule March 27, 1961, at Canadair Limited. The first production model, and the second aircraft which will be completed in May, will be transferred to Burbank, California, for checking and flight-testing by Lockheed Aircraft Corp., the plane's designers. The third and all subsequent aircraft are to be test-flown at Canadair, starting in June, and first deliveries to the RCAF are due in the Fall. DND photo.

Probably being flown by the Hawker test pilot Duncan Simpson. Scanned from an original Hawker Aircraft photograph from my collection, photographer unknown.

One of a long line of Dodgers aircraft registered N1R. Photo from: Civil Aviation Historical Society, Melbourne, Australia