07/31/2018. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "In September 1938 a Model 10D was evaluated by the RCAF at Trenton Air Station, Ontario, which requested modifications to make it suitable for aerobatics with full military equipment. Fleet Aircraft of Canada Ltd. at Fort Erie, Ontario, then designed the Model 16, which was as the Model 10 but with Douglas fir instead of spruce for the wing spars; some interplane struts and fuselage members made of heavier-gauge tubing; double landing wires and double wires on the underside of the tail plane. These double wires were the only feature distinguishing the Model 16 from the Model 10. The designations of the Model 16 variants were:

16B (RCAF designation Finch Mk.II) Kinner B-5
16D/R* (RCAF designation Finch Mk.I) Kinner R-5
16F Warner Super Scarab.

     * The designation 16D was assigned by Fleet in accordance with its standard model system. In January 1940 Fleet agreed to use
         a 16R designation for RCAF aircraft but 16D was retained as the standard company designation and for other customers.

Fleet started a batch of 28 aircraft, 27 for the RCAF (serialed 1001 to 1027, c/n 243 to 261, 263 to 270) and one (c/n 262) for the parent company Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in San Diego, California, USA. C/n 262 was completed as the sole Model 16F, power plant was an 145 hp Super Scarab with an 8 ft (2.44 m) fixed pitch Curtiss propeller. It had increased fuel capacity, a fixed tail wheel and an engine cowling. It was first flown on February 8, 1939, at Fort Erie by Richard E. Young, and on February 21 it was tested by Consolidated's test pilot George J. Newman and registered as NC20699 it was delivered to Consolidated. Shortly thereafter, April 6, 1939, Consolidated sold the 16F prototype and the US rights to the Fleet 16 design to the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation at Long Island City, New York.

In the summer of 1939 Brewster applied for an experimental certificate as it had installed an 165 hp Warner engine on a detachable engine mount, as well as a single fuel tank, and completely refurbished the aircraft. The aircraft was redesignated Brewster B-1 and giving the registration NX20699 and the new c/n 1. Testing began early in 1940, but the results did not lead to the intended place in the military market, and Brewster never exercised the rights to manufacture the type. Subsequently Brewster 'sold' the aircraft without engine to the Penguin Flying Club (Brewster's employees club!) as an 16F with c/n 1. The club installed an 125 hp Kinner B5 with a Hamilton variable pitch propeller and the aircraft was registered as a Brewster Fleet 10. In 1946 it was sold to a Max Goldstein and subsequently it had a number of owners who changed equipment, propeller and engine.

In 1972 it was acquired by Frank Delmar who later initiated a restoration exercised by Walt Scheibe. It took three years and 1,200 hours to restored the aircraft to the Brewster Fleet 10, it was flown again in 1977. Frank Delmar donated the aircraft to the Airpower Museum at Ottumwa, Iowa, in 1989. Since April 17, 2014, the aircraft is registered to the museum as a Brewster Fleet B.1."