Antonov is the Ukrainian aviation company descended from the design bureau that Oleg Antonov led from 1946, and it remains state-owned. Its speciality, sustained for eight decades, is very large transport aircraft and machines able to work…
ATR — Avions de Transport Régional in French, Aerei da Trasporto Regionale in Italian — is a Franco-Italian aircraft manufacturer headquartered in Blagnac, on the outskirts of Toulouse. It was formed in 1981 as a joint venture, under the…
Avro — an initialism of its founder's name, A. V. Roe — was one of the world's first aircraft builders and one of the most influential British manufacturers of the twentieth century. Alliott Verdon Roe and his brother Humphrey established…
Beechcraft is an American brand of civil and military aircraft headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, owned by Textron Aviation since 2014. It was originally the brand of the Beech Aircraft Corporation, founded in 1932 by Walter Beech, whose…
The Bristol Aeroplane Company, founded as the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was at once one of the earliest and one of the most important British aviation firms, and among the few that designed and built both airframes and aero…
British Aerospace plc (BAe) was the United Kingdom's great aircraft, munitions and defence-systems conglomerate, formed in 1977 with its head office at Warwick House in the Farnborough Aerospace Centre, Hampshire. It was not the product of…
Britten-Norman is a privately owned British aircraft manufacturer and aviation services provider, and the only independent commercial aircraft builder left in the United Kingdom. Its historic home is at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight,…
Construcciones Aeronáuticas S.A. (CASA) was the Spanish aircraft manufacturer founded by José Ortiz Echagüe on 3 March 1923, and for most of the twentieth century the driving company of Spain's aerospace sector. It began building aircraft…
COMAC — the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China — is the Chinese state-owned aerospace manufacturer created on 11 May 2008 in Shanghai, with headquarters in the Pudong district. It was set up with an explicit political purpose: to…
Convair was an American aircraft manufacturer created in 1943 by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft, with most of its design and production work concentrated in San Diego County, southern California. General Dynamics…
Dornier Flugzeugwerke was the German aircraft manufacturer founded at Friedrichshafen in 1914 by Claude Dornier, on the shore of Lake Constance and within the industrial orbit of the Zeppelin works. Over an unusually long life it produced…
The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aircraft and defence manufacturer based in southern California, founded on 22 July 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas Sr. in Santa Monica. It merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to create McDonnell…
Embraer S.A. is a Brazilian multinational aerospace corporation that develops and manufactures aircraft and aviation systems, and also provides leasing, equipment and technical support services. It is the world's third largest producer of…
Fairchild was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer founded in 1924 by Sherman Fairchild and based in turn at Farmingdale, New York; Hagerstown, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas. It began as the parent company for its founder's…
Fokker was the Dutch aircraft manufacturer par excellence, in business from 1912 to 1996 and formally styled in its final years as N.V. Koninklijke Nederlandse Vliegtuigenfabriek Fokker. It grew out of the ambition of aviator Anthony…
Handley Page Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer founded by Frederick Handley Page in 1909 and based at Radlett Aerodrome in Hertfordshire. It holds the distinction of being the first publicly traded aircraft manufacturing company…
Hawker Siddeley was a British industrial group built primarily around aircraft manufacturing, which gathered the legacies of much of the country's historic aviation industry under a single roof. Through a long chain of mergers and…
Ilyushin — officially the Ilyushin Aviation Complex, a public joint stock company, and also known as the Ilyushin Design Bureau — is a Russian aircraft manufacturer and design bureau founded in 1933 by Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin. Soviet…
Junkers was one of Germany's major aircraft and aero-engine manufacturers. The firm began in Dessau in 1895 under the engineer and inventor Hugo Junkers, and it did not start with aeroplanes but with boilers and radiators: aviation came…
The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer founded in 1926 and based for decades in Burbank, California. Its founder, Allan Loughead, came from an earlier company whose name sounded the same, the Loughead Aircraft…
Saab AB is Sweden's aerospace and defence group: its registered office is in Stockholm, while aircraft development and manufacturing are concentrated in Linköping. Its original name, Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget, described what the firm…
Short Brothers — usually called Shorts — is an aerospace company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, whose history begins in 1908 in London. It holds a claim that is hard to dispute: it was the first company in the world to build…
Supermarine was a British aircraft manufacturer based at Woolston, on the banks of the River Itchen in Southampton. Noel Pemberton-Billing founded it in 1913 as Pemberton-Billing Ltd to build flying boats, and the name it became famous…
Tupolev is a Russian aerospace and defence company headquartered in Moscow's Basmanny District, whose current official name is United Aircraft Company Tupolev - Public Joint Stock Company. It is the direct successor of the Soviet Tupolev…
Vickers was a British engineering company with an extraordinarily long life: it began in 1828 as a steel foundry in Sheffield and did not finally disappear until 1999. Before it built aeroplanes it was famous for casting church bells, and…
Yakovlev is the Russian design bureau founded by Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, whose aircraft carry the "Yak" prefix. Its head office is in Moscow's Aeroport District, and it is now a subsidiary of the corporation that has taken its name…
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