The General Aircraft Company Ltd was formed in the late 1920s at Mascot, NSW, for the purpose of manufacturing a range of light aircraft of Australian design.
In about May of 1970 it was announced to the press that negotiations had been in progress for sometime in relation to the possibility that the American-designed 36-40 seat GAC-100 feeder liner, powered by United Aircraft of Canada PT-6 turboprop engines, would be almost entirely built and assembled in Australia