Kārlis Irbītis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kārlis Irbītis

Latvian aircraft designer

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1904

Place of Birth: Valmiera, Latvia

Date of Death: 13-Oct-1997

Profession: engineer, inventor

Nationality: Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Karlis Irbitis (October 14, 1904, Lade 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).