New Standard
NT-1Trainer
Photo: Robert Deering 4/18/2015
National Museum of Naval Aviation
NAS Pensacola (NPA)
Pensacola, Florida
The New Standard Aircraft Company was an airplane manufacturing company based in the United States. It operated from 1927 until 1931
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HISTORY

The company was originally formed as the Gates-Day Aircraft Company on October 17, 1927, in Paterson, New Jersey. The founders were Ivan Gates (owner of the famous Gates Flying Circus) and Charles H. Day (an aviation engineer with the Standard Aircraft Corporation). The company initially updated the Standard Aircraft Corporation's Standard J-1 United States Army aircraft trainer and then sold it on the civilian market. The firm built a number of biplanes on the J-1 model, including the Gates-Day D-25, GD-23, and GD-24.

Day left the company in April 1928, and Charles L. Augur became its new president. With more stable finances, the company changed its name to the New Standard Aircraft Company on December 29, 1928. The company at one time considered merging with six other, unnamed aviation firms to form a much larger manufacturing concern, but this plan was never acted on. The company continued to develop a large line of aircraft, but the onset of the Great Depression left it significantly weakened. Day returned to the firm as president in 1930, but sold his financial interest in the company in the spring of 1931. The company went bankrupt later that year.

Source: Wikipedia

AIRCRAFT  
Gates-Day GD-24 Precursor to New Standard D series; three were built
New Standard D-24 Production version of GD-24; four were built and two were converted from GD-24s
New Standard D-25 Five-seat "joy-rider"
New Standard D-26 Three-seat business/executive transport
New Standard D-27 Single seat mail/cargo carrier
New Standard D-28 Floatplane conversion of D-26
New Standard D-29 Trainer aircraft
New Standard D-30 Floatplane modified D-25
New Standard D-31 Special Cariant of the D-29A
New Standard D-32 Special Three seater D-29A with Wright J-6.
New Standard D-33 Special Three seater D-29A with Kinner B-5.
NT-1 Military variant of the D-29
NT-2 Military variant of the D-25