Custom Flight

{{Short description|Canadian aircraft manufacturer}}

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| location_city = Tiny, Ontario

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| key_people = Morgan Williams

| industry = Aerospace

| products = Light aircraft

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Custom Flight Ltd is a Canadian aircraft manufacturer based in Tiny, Ontario that was founded by Morgan Williams. Its address was formerly Perkinsfield, Ontario in the late 1990s. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of light aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly light-sport aircraft.Vandermeullen, Richard: 2012 Kit Aircraft Buyer's Guide, Kitplanes, Volume 28, Number 12, December 2011, page 49-50. Belvoir Publications. ISSN 0891-1851Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, Fifth Edition, page 144. BAI Communications, 15 July 1998. {{ISBN|0-9636409-4-1}}

Williams had rebuilt Piper PA-18 Super Cubs before, but thought that the design could be improved upon and so he created a fresh design that incorporated the best of the Super Cub and corrected its deficiencies. This aircraft was marketed as the Custom Flight North Star with at least 24 examples having been flown by 2016.{{cite web|url=http://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/CCARCS-RIACC/RchSimpRes.aspx?cn=%7c%7c&mn=%7cNORTHSTAR%7c&sn=%7c%7c&on=%7c%7c&m=%7c%7c |title=Canadian Civil Aircraft Register |accessdate=3 December 2016 |last=Transport Canada |date=3 December 2016 }}{{cite web|url = http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/AcftRef_Results.aspx?Mfrtxt=&Modeltxt=NORTH+STAR&PageNo=1|title = Make / Model Inquiry Results|accessdate = 3 December 2016|last = Federal Aviation Administration|date = 3 December 2016|archive-date = 4 March 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063912/http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/AcftRef_Results.aspx?Mfrtxt=&Modeltxt=NORTH+STAR&PageNo=1|url-status = dead}}

The Custom Flight Lite Star is a smaller, lighter aircraft for the light-sport aircraft market, although as of September 2014, the design does not appear on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of approved special light-sport aircraft.{{cite web|url=http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/gen_av/light_sport/media/SLSA_Directory.xls |title=SLSA Make/Model Directory |accessdate=10 September 2014 |last=Federal Aviation Administration |date=28 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516004527/http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/gen_av/light_sport/media/SLSA_Directory.xls |archivedate=16 May 2013 }}

The company also provides general computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing services as well as powder coating.{{cite web|url = http://www.customflightltd.com/|title = Home|accessdate = 28 December 2014|last = Custom Flight Ltd|year = 2013}}