James Young

James Young founded the business that became Pratt & Whitney Canada in 1928, when it opened as the Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company to service the Pratt & Whitney Wasp radial engines then in use in Canada. The company began as a maintenance and service operation for American-built engines, and over the following decades grew into a designer and builder of its own small and medium aircraft engines, among them the PT6 turboprop, from its base in Longueuil, Quebec. The sources consulted name Young only as the founder and give no birth or death dates, nationality or later career, so this entry records his role in starting the company and nothing more.