This thing looks pretty cool. Never have heard of this aircraft.

http://www.barnstormers.com/classified_ ... nnial.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_Centennial

I like it!

The Centennial was the follow up to the 2c. It got it's name because it came out in the same year of Canada's Centennial (1967). The plane never did live up to it's promises. The only real success it saw was as a recovery bird on the Churchill MB rocket range where it would head out (mostly on skis) and recover the research payloads from the rockets. It was OK for this because the distances were short and the payloads were relativity light. The Centennial had big doors to load the rocket payload in and was cheaper to operate than a Beaver.

The bank that took over Found Aviation was the major push behind the Centennial. They felt that a larger, more complicated airplane was what the market wanted. They were wrong...they should have stuck with the 2c. We are seeing Found repeat it's history...The Bush Hawk is no longer made and the the Expedition sales are going nowhere.

The common thread in the history is that Investment Bankers are running the show