The Curtiss-Reid Rambler is a trainer airplane first flown on September 23, 1928 and used by the many emerging flying clubs throughout Canada. It was designed by Wilfrid Thomas Reid, a British aeronautical engineer who emigrated to Canada to work for Canadian Vickers in Montreal.
Reid then founded his own aircraft manufacturing company and named it Reid Aircraft based out of Cartierville, Quebec. Reid’s first design, the Rambler, was a largely conventional biplane design with fabric-covered wings which could be folded back for storage.
The fuselage was of steel tube construction covered in fabric with tandem seats for pilot and student in an open cockpit with a 120 hp de Havilland Gipsy engine providing a maximum speed of 180 km/h (112 mph). A total of thirty-six examples were built.
The museum’s example is a full-scale reconstruction with original upper wings.
