Kārlis Irbītis

Kārlis Irbītis
Born(1904-10-14)October 14, 1904
Lāde Parish, Kreis Wolmar, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (Now Latvia)
DiedOctober 13, 1997(1997-10-13) (aged 92)
Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada
NationalityLatvian
OccupationAirplane designer
Known forVEF I-16
AwardsBronze medal from the Latvian Aeroclub (1938)
McCurdy Award for the VSTOL CL-84 project (1970)
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Kārlis Irbītis (October 14, 1904, in Lāde parish, Governorate of Livonia – October 13, 1997, in 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 aircraft. 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).

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