Davidson Aeroworks

Davidson Aeroworks has been a very successful and gratifying business operated by me, Neil Davidson, for forty years.  I am now working mostly alone at a time when many people contemplate retirement.  My choice is to remain fully engaged with my lifelong passion. 

In 1965 I completed an excellent two-year program in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Technology at SAIT in Calgary, Canada while building my first aircraft, a 1932 Pietenpol Aircamper.  After exchanging the original Model A automobile engine in that aircraft for a Continental 65 engine it proved to be a wonderful flying machine.  Like many “first loves” it has remained my favorite.  By building flight time on the Pietenpol, my flying license soon became “Commercial” on both fixed wing and then helicopters.  Beginning in 1970, I flew helicopters on “summer contract” in the Canadian North, and the rest of the year in the shop overhauling helicopters.  By 1983 my overhaul interests had morphed into the restoration of historic flying machines.  By this time my Pietenpol had been exchanged for a Canadian built Tiger Moth CF-COR.   Davidson Aeroworks was established in that year, but I continued contract flying helicopters in the Canadian North until 1996, after which my restoration activities became year-round.  We have continued restoring aeroplanes, fabricating components, and overhauling Gipsy Major engines to the present.