Here is a photograph of Noury Aircraft, first originator of the aircraft.

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You can see there its first aircraft CF-BYX.

The Canuck plane has an unbeatable record. These planes were drawn and manufactured here about 63 years ago. The astonishing fact is that almost half of these planes are always in service.

Some of them flies with more than twenty five thousand hours and there is no other small planes which can beat this record.

Canuck, whose tubular type of construction in comparison with the monoshell plan, has a life much longer and a tiny cost of repair.
"That is compared with a good car body".

Ottawa, Ontario, March 14, 1940

J O Noury obtains the exportation certificate for the Canuck planes. He sold some in Canada and in the United States, in Argentina, in Brazil, and Portugal.

Its simplicity

The fuselage of Canuck is a ‘’1025’’ and ‘’1040’’ content steel tubular manufacture, originally welded with oxy-acetylene and now welded with argon, covered with nylon fabric. Now of ceconite.

The principal wings characteristic is the presence of compression ‘’struts’’ which allows acrobatics including spirals, obligatory to obtain a pilot licence.

The engine is a Continental C85 H.P. air cooled. The undercarriage is of the aft wheel type ‘’tailwheel’’. It has its Canadian homologation and can be exported universally.

Its simplicity makes it an inexpensive aircraft to repair and operate. For a cruising speed of one hundred miles per hour, it consumes four gallons per hour.

In 1951 J.Omer Noury became regional federal inspector for the province of Quebec.
July 04, 1984, J.Omer Noury granted an interview to Mrs Jeannine Dupuis, who made him share of the Canuck project.
J O Noury was sick and this news made him happy.
He gave her councils, photographs, plans and some documents being able to be useful.
August 04, 1984, one month later, J O Noury died by leaving like heritage in the whole world the best plane tubular structure.

The proverb known as: "It is necessary to die to be heroic."

HERO OF PROJECT CANUCK, he's beaten from generations to generations, convinced that there is not better plane structure.
Finally let us pass, another era is starting.

This photograph represents the sale of the second plane, J Omer Noury on the fleetaircraft of delivery of its last plane to the Fleet Manufacturing Ltd company, from its aircraft parts factory. Fleet Manufacturing Ltd sold beyond 200 planes.

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The last delivery of a Canuck from J O Noury sold to Fleet was in 1944. The Fleet Manufacturing Ltd company developped Canuck to then sell it to Leavens Brothers Ltd, which continued manufacture, and with the recession, sold it to Marcel Dorion.
July 04, 1984, J.O. Noury granted an interview to Mrs Jeannine Dupuis.

March 19, 1985, Mrs Jeannine Dupuis, working on the Canuck project, purchased it and founded the company Air Canuck 80 Inc.

The word Canuck comes from the appelation given by the foreign soldiers to the Canadian soldiers during the Second World War. Canuck is called thus in their memory.