Kārlis Irbītis

Kārlis Irbītis
Born	(1904-10-14)October 14, 1904 Lāde Parish, Russian Empire (Now  Latvia)
Died	October 13, 1997(1997-10-13) (aged 92) Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada
Nationality	Latvian
Occupation	Airplane designer
Known for	VEF I-16
Awards	Bronze medal from the Latvian Aeroclub (1938) McCurdy Award for the VSTOL CL-84 project (1970)

Kārlis Irbītis (October 14, 1904, Lāde parish, Governorate of Livonia – October 13, 1997, Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada) was a Latvian aeroplane designer.

His greatest successes, for the VEF Factory, were the sports plane VEF I-12 (1935) and the monoplane VEF I-16 (1939), used as a fighter. After World War II, when he had emigrated to Canada, he was the designer of the experimental Canadian vertical landing and take-off aeroplane, the CL-84 (1950).

Aircraft Designed by Kārlis Irbītis

VEF I-16

• VEF Irbitis I-11
• VEF Irbitis I-12
• VEF Irbitis I-14
• VEF Irbitis I-15
• VEF Irbitis I-16
• VEF Irbitis I-17
• VEF Irbitis I-18
• VEF Irbitis I-19
• Canadair CL-84
• Irbitis Gambija - K.Irbitis (for N.Pulins)
• Irbitis-Backman I.4 Vanadzins - K.Irbitis / A.S.Christine Backman
• Irbitis I-1
• Irbitis I-2
• Irbitis I-4
• Irbitis I-5 Ikars II
• Irbitis I-6 Gambija
• Irbitis I-7 Zilais Putns
• Irbitis I-8 Zilais Putns II - N.Pulins / K. Irbitis
• Irbitis I-9 Vanags / Valsts Daugavpils Arodskola
• Irbitis I-12 – K. Irbitis - 2-seater, later converted to single-seater
• Irbitis I-14
• Irbitis I-15a
• Irbitis I-15b
• Irbitis I-16
• Irbitis I-17
• Pulins-Irbitis P.2 Spriditis (I.1) – N.Pulins & K.Irbitis
• Pulins-Irbitis P.3 Ikars (I.2) – N.Pulins & K.Irbitis

External links

• Latvian Academy of Sciences: Inventors of Latvia — Karl Irbitis
• Media related to Kārlis Irbītis at Wikimedia Commons