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The British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) was a British aircraft manufacturer formed from the government-pressured merger of English Electric Aviation Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Hunting Aircraft in 1960. Bristol, English Electric and Vickers became "parents" of BAC with shareholdings of 20%, 40% and 40% ...
Note 2: due to mergers and amalgamations within the UK aircraft industry sometimes the name of the manufacturer changed over time, e.g., English Electric later became part of the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), so the English Electric Lightning then became the BAC Lightning; the British Aircraft Corporation itself and Hawker Siddeley (HS ...
The BAC Two-Eleven and BAC Three-Eleven were a pair of proposals for British airliners that were produced by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) during the late 1960s. The projects had emerged from design studies which had been aimed at competing first with the Boeing 727-200 and then with the proposed European Airbus.
British Eagle: 2 5 Ceased operations in 1968 British European Airways: 18 Merged with BOAC to form British Airways in 1974 British Island Airways (I) 4 Became Air UK in 1980 British Island Airways (II) 5 7 British Midland Airways: 1 1 3 Leased from Airways International Cymru, Dan-Air, and British Aircraft Corporation: British United Airways ...
ICAO code in use by another company, call sign no longer allocated BRS Brazilian Air Force: BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE Brazil TH BRT British Regional Airlines: BRITISH United Kingdom defunct B2 BRU Belavia Belarusian Airlines BELARUS AVIA Belarus BRV Bravo Air Congo: BRAVO Democratic Republic of the Congo defunct BRW Bright Aviation Services: BRIGHT ...
The British Aircraft Company was a British aircraft manufacturer based in Maidstone. It was founded by C H Lowe-Wylde and produced gliders and light aircraft during the 1930s. B.A.C. Ltd was registered as a Limited Company on 4 March 1931; directors were C H Lowe-Wylde, K Barcham Green and Mrs Sheila M Green. Around this time Lowe-Wylde was ...
The BAC One-Eleven (or BAC-111/BAC 1-11) is an early jet airliner produced by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Originally conceived by Hunting Aircraft as a 30-seat jet, before its merger into BAC in 1960, it was launched as an 80-seat airliner with a British United Airways (BUA) order on 9 May 1961.
The BAC 167 Strikemaster is a jet-powered training and light attack aircraft designed and produced by the British Aircraft Corporation. It was a development of the Hunting Jet Provost trainer, itself a jet engined version of the Percival Provost , which originally flew in 1950 with a radial engine .