TRIDENT TRIGULL TIMELINE

1965

Legend amphibian aircraft designer Percival H. Spencer and his aircraft engineering son-in-law Charles Y. Herbst join forces to design a modernized version of Spence's Republic RC-3 Seabee amphibian.

1969

The project is taken over in 1969 by entrepreneur David A. Hazlewood and C. S. Newton in Canada.

1970 February

Trident Aircraft Ltd. is foundet to handle design and production at Vancouver, where Canadian Aircraft Products, a shareholder, later built two flying prototypes and a structural test airframe. 

 1973 August 05

 First flight of prototype CF-TRI-X (s/n 1) by test pilot Paul A. Hartman.

 1976 July 02

 First flight of 2nd protoype C-GATE-X (s/n 3) by test pilot Norman M. Ronaason.