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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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