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.infobox-label{padding-right:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .ib-company .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-company .infobox-below{line-height:1.35em}.mw-parser-output .ib-company-logo img{background-color:#f8f9fa}.mw-parser-output .ib-company-locality,.mw-parser-output .ib-company-country{display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-company vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">British Aircraft Corporation</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image ib-company-logo logo"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Aircraft_Corporation_Logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d5/British_Aircraft_Corporation_Logo.svg/150px-British_Aircraft_Corporation_Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d5/British_Aircraft_Corporation_Logo.svg/225px-British_Aircraft_Corporation_Logo.svg.png 1.5x, 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The logo was adopted by <a href="/wiki/British_Aerospace" title="British Aerospace">British Aerospace</a>, the successor to BAC.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1960<span class="noprint">; 64 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1960</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">29 April 1977<span class="noprint">; 47 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend">1977-04-29</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fate</th><td class="infobox-data">Merged with <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley" title="Hawker Siddeley">Hawker Siddeley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Aviation" title="Scottish Aviation">Scottish Aviation</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/British_Aerospace" title="British Aerospace">British Aerospace</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="/wiki/City_of_Westminster" title="City of Westminster">City of Westminster</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>British Aircraft Corporation</b> (<b>BAC</b>) was a British <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_manufacturer" class="mw-redirect" title="Aircraft manufacturer">aircraft manufacturer</a> formed from the government-pressured merger of <a href="/wiki/English_Electric" title="English Electric">English Electric Aviation Ltd.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vickers-Armstrongs" title="Vickers-Armstrongs">Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft)</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Aeroplane_Company" title="Bristol Aeroplane Company">Bristol Aeroplane Company</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hunting_Aircraft" title="Hunting Aircraft">Hunting Aircraft</a> in 1960. Bristol, English Electric and Vickers became "parents" of BAC with shareholdings of 20%, 40% and 40% respectively. BAC in turn acquired the share capital of their aviation interests and 70% of Hunting Aircraft several months later.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Formation">Formation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Formation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Island_Airways_at_Basle_-_1985.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/British_Island_Airways_at_Basle_-_1985.jpg/220px-British_Island_Airways_at_Basle_-_1985.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/British_Island_Airways_at_Basle_-_1985.jpg/330px-British_Island_Airways_at_Basle_-_1985.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/British_Island_Airways_at_Basle_-_1985.jpg/440px-British_Island_Airways_at_Basle_-_1985.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1023" data-file-height="671" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/BAC_1-11" class="mw-redirect" title="BAC 1-11">BAC 1-11</a> passenger airliner</figcaption></figure> <p>BAC's origins can be traced to a statement issued by the British government that it expected the various companies involved in the aircraft, guided weapons and engine industries to consolidate and merge with one another.<sup id="cite_ref-gard_37_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gard_37-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Furthermore, the government also promised incentives to motivate such restructuring; the maintenance of government research and development spending and the guarantee of aid in launching "promising new types of civil aircraft". One particularly high-profile incentive was the contract for a new large supersonic strike aircraft, which would become the <a href="/wiki/BAC_TSR-2" title="BAC TSR-2">BAC TSR-2</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gard_37_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gard_37-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Accordingly, during 1960, BAC was created as a jointly-owned <a href="/wiki/Corporation" title="Corporation">corporation</a> by Vickers, English Electric and Bristol. Internally, the business had two divisions – the Aircraft Division under Sir <a href="/wiki/George_Edwards_(aviation)" title="George Edwards (aviation)">George Edwards</a> and the Guided Weapons Division under <a href="/wiki/Robin_Inskip,_2nd_Viscount_Caldecote" title="Robin Inskip, 2nd Viscount Caldecote">Viscount Caldecote</a>. The aircraft operations of the three parents were now subsidiaries of BAC; "Bristol Aircraft Ltd", "English Electric Aviation Ltd" (with Viscount Caldecote as general manager) and "Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd" (under Sir George Edwards). BAC also had a controlling interest in Hunting Aircraft. The parents still had significant aviation interests outside BAC. English Electric had Napier & Son aero-engines, Bristol had 50% of Bristol Aerojet and <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Siddeley" title="Bristol Siddeley">Bristol Siddeley</a> engines and smaller investments in Westland and Short Brothers & Harland.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon the formation of BAC, the Bristol Aeroplane Company (Car Division) was not included in the consolidation.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Instead, it was carved off by Sir George White, whose family had founded the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company in 1910 (later the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Aeroplane_Company" title="Bristol Aeroplane Company">Bristol Aeroplane Company</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>BAC's head office was on the top floors of the 100 <a href="/wiki/Pall_Mall,_London" title="Pall Mall, London">Pall Mall</a> building in the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Westminster" title="City of Westminster">City of Westminster</a>, London.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Map_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Map-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_endeavours">Early endeavours</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early endeavours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Concorde_g-boab_in_storage_arp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Concorde_g-boab_in_storage_arp.jpg/220px-Concorde_g-boab_in_storage_arp.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Concorde_g-boab_in_storage_arp.jpg/330px-Concorde_g-boab_in_storage_arp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Concorde_g-boab_in_storage_arp.jpg/440px-Concorde_g-boab_in_storage_arp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1955" data-file-height="1027" /></a><figcaption>BAC <a href="/wiki/A%C3%A9rospatiale" title="Aérospatiale">Aérospatiale</a> <a href="/wiki/Concorde" title="Concorde">Concorde</a> G-BOAB in storage at <a href="/wiki/London_Heathrow_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="London Heathrow Airport">London Heathrow Airport</a> following Concorde's grounding in 2000. This aircraft flew for 22,296 hours between its first flight in 1976 and its grounding.</figcaption></figure> <p>The majority of BAC's aircraft designs had been inherited from the individual companies that formed it. BAC did not apply its new identity retrospectively, hence the VC10 remained the <a href="/wiki/Vickers_VC10" title="Vickers VC10">Vickers VC10</a>. Instead the company applied its name to marketing initiatives, the VC10 advertising carried the name "Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Limited, a member company of the British Aircraft Corporation". The first model to bear the BAC name was the <a href="/wiki/BAC_One-Eleven" title="BAC One-Eleven">BAC One-Eleven</a> (BAC 1–11), a Hunting Aircraft study, in 1961. Given the numerous government contract cancellations during the 1960s, the BAC 1–11, which had been launched as a private venture, probably saved the company.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prior to the merger, Bristol had eschewed the subsonic airliner market in favour of working on the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_223" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol 223">Bristol 223</a> <a href="/wiki/Supersonic_transport" title="Supersonic transport">supersonic transport</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEConway200569_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEConway200569-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The effort continued under BAC and was eventually merged with similar efforts underway at the French aircraft company <a href="/wiki/Sud_Aviation" title="Sud Aviation">Sud Aviation</a>, resulting in the Anglo-French <a href="/wiki/Concorde" title="Concorde">Concorde</a>. Described by <i><a href="/wiki/Flight_International" title="Flight International">Flight International</a></i> as an "aviation icon" and "one of aerospace's most ambitious but commercially flawed projects",<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> sales of the type were lackluster against conventional subsonic airliners, primarily due to the emergence of <a href="/wiki/Wide-body_aircraft" title="Wide-body aircraft">wide-body aircraft</a>, such as the <a href="/wiki/Boeing_747" title="Boeing 747">Boeing 747</a>, which made subsonic airliners significantly more efficient.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERoss197847–49_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERoss197847–49-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While by March 1969, the consortium had arrangements totalling 74 options from 16 airlines,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> only two airlines, <a href="/wiki/Air_France" title="Air France">Air France</a> and the <a href="/wiki/British_Overseas_Airways_Corporation" title="British Overseas Airways Corporation">British Overseas Airways Corporation</a>, would proceed with their orders. Scheduled services commenced on 21 January 1976 on both the London–<a href="/wiki/Bahrain_International_Airport" title="Bahrain International Airport">Bahrain</a> and Paris–<a href="/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro%E2%80%93Gale%C3%A3o_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport">Rio de Janeiro</a> routes.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BAC_TSR.2_XR219_Warton_11.06.66_edited-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/BAC_TSR.2_XR219_Warton_11.06.66_edited-2.jpg/220px-BAC_TSR.2_XR219_Warton_11.06.66_edited-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/BAC_TSR.2_XR219_Warton_11.06.66_edited-2.jpg/330px-BAC_TSR.2_XR219_Warton_11.06.66_edited-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/BAC_TSR.2_XR219_Warton_11.06.66_edited-2.jpg/440px-BAC_TSR.2_XR219_Warton_11.06.66_edited-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="686" /></a><figcaption>The protototype <a href="/wiki/BAC_TSR-2" title="BAC TSR-2">BAC TSR-2</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Warton_Aerodrome" title="Warton Aerodrome">Warton factory</a> in 1966</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1963, BAC acquired the previously autonomous guided weapons divisions of English Electric and Bristol to form a new subsidiary, British Aircraft Corporation (Guided Weapons). The company enjoyed some success, including development of the <a href="/wiki/Rapier_missile" class="mw-redirect" title="Rapier missile">Rapier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sea_Skua" title="Sea Skua">Sea Skua</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sea_Wolf_missile" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea Wolf missile">Sea Wolf missiles</a>. BAC eventually expanded this division to include electronics and space systems and, in 1966, started what was to become a fruitful relationship with <a href="/wiki/Hughes_Aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Hughes Aircraft">Hughes Aircraft</a>. Hughes awarded major contracts to BAC, including sub-systems for <a href="/wiki/Intelsat" title="Intelsat">Intelsat</a> satellites.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>BAC had inherited the <a href="/wiki/Aerospace" title="Aerospace">aerospace</a> activities of several companies via its formation, and research into various space-related ventures continued at the new entity.<sup id="cite_ref-newsci86_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newsci86-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of BAC's research teams, headed by engineer <a href="/wiki/Tom_Smith_(engineer)" title="Tom Smith (engineer)">Tom Smith</a>, Chief of the Aerospace Department at BAC,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that was initially investigating <a href="/wiki/Supersonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Supersonic">supersonic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hypersonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Hypersonic">hypersonic</a> flight problems, became interested in the application of such a vehicle for space-related activities, leading to the <a href="/wiki/BAC_Mustard" title="BAC Mustard">BAC Mustard</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Reusable_launch_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Reusable launch system">reusable launch system</a> that comprised several near-identical winged vehicles.<sup id="cite_ref-newsci86_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newsci86-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the most detailed design, Mustard was to have weighed roughly 420 tonnes prior to launch, and been capable of delivering a three tonne payload to a <a href="/wiki/Geostationary_orbit" title="Geostationary orbit">geostationary earth orbit</a> (GEO). According to author Nigel Henbest, Britain was likely unable to pursue Mustard's development alone, but suggested organising a multinational European venture, similar to the conventional <a href="/wiki/Europa_(rocket)" title="Europa (rocket)">Europa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ariane_(rocket_family)" title="Ariane (rocket family)">Ariane</a> launchers.<sup id="cite_ref-newsci86_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newsci86-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The knowledge and expertise developed on this project was subsequently harnessed on later efforts, most prominently the re-usable <a href="/wiki/HOTOL" class="mw-redirect" title="HOTOL">HOTOL</a> spaceplane project of the 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-sharp2016_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sharp2016-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-newsci86_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newsci86-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Development of the TSR-2 was one of the company's most high-profile projects. However, as the programme proceeded, continuous cost rises were incurred,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while inter-service rivalry led to frequent challenges of its necessity.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During April 1965, the British government announced that it had decided to withdraw its order for the TSR-2, leaving it without an established customer. By this point, the programme was already in the prototype phase and the aircraft had already flown, but political pressure forced development work to cease, leading to the remaining airframes and most supporting equipment and documentation to be destroyed.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-page-obit_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-page-obit-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The TSR-2's last minute termination has been widely viewed as a major blow not only to BAC but the wider British aircraft industry.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Winchester_p._173_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winchester_p._173-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_ventures">New ventures</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: New ventures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 17 May 1965, the British and French governments announced the signing of a pair of agreements to cover the two joint projects; one based on the French aircraft company <a href="/wiki/Breguet_Aviation" title="Breguet Aviation">Breguet Aviation</a> Br.121 ECAT ("Tactical Combat Support Trainer") proposal; this would evolve into the <a href="/wiki/SEPECAT_Jaguar" title="SEPECAT Jaguar">SEPECAT Jaguar</a>. The other was the <a href="/wiki/BAC/Dassault_AFVG" title="BAC/Dassault AFVG">BAC/Dassault AFVG</a> (Anglo-French Variable Geometry), a larger, variable geometry <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">carrier</a>-capable fighter aircraft for the French Navy (<a href="/wiki/French_Naval_Aviation" title="French Naval Aviation"><i>Aéronavale</i></a>) as well as fulfilling interceptor, tactical strike and reconnaissance roles for the RAF.<sup id="cite_ref-dual_Role._25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dual_Role.-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wood_202_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wood_202-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The AFVG was to be jointly developed by BAC and <a href="/wiki/Dassault_Aviation" title="Dassault Aviation">Dassault Aviation</a>, while the proposed <a href="/wiki/SNECMA_M45" title="SNECMA M45">M45G</a> <a href="/wiki/Turbofan" title="Turbofan">turbofan</a> engine to power the aircraft was to also be jointly developed by <a href="/wiki/SNECMA" class="mw-redirect" title="SNECMA">SNECMA</a> and Bristol Siddeley.<sup id="cite_ref-wood_202_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wood_202-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, during June 1967, the French government announced its withdrawal from the AFVG effort ostensibly on the grounds of cost.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>N 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wood_203_204_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wood_203_204-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JaguarGR1_41Sqn_Gulf1991.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/JaguarGR1_41Sqn_Gulf1991.jpeg/220px-JaguarGR1_41Sqn_Gulf1991.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/JaguarGR1_41Sqn_Gulf1991.jpeg/330px-JaguarGR1_41Sqn_Gulf1991.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/JaguarGR1_41Sqn_Gulf1991.jpeg/440px-JaguarGR1_41Sqn_Gulf1991.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="2820" data-file-height="1880" /></a><figcaption>SEPECAT Jaguar</figcaption></figure> <p>During May 1966, BAC and Breguet formally created <a href="/wiki/SEPECAT" title="SEPECAT">SEPECAT</a>, a joint venture company, to develop, market, and produce the Anglo-French Jaguar strike fighter. The Jaguar programme ultimately took the place of several earlier efforts, including the AFVG. The first of the Jaguar's eight prototypes flew on 8 September 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-1stFlight_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1stFlight-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JAWA71_p107_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JAWA71_p107-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During 1973, service entry was achieved with the French Air Force, by which time Breguet had become part of <a href="/wiki/Dassault_Aviation" title="Dassault Aviation">Dassault Aviation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> SEPECAT received various export orders for the Jaguar, overseas nations that flew the type included <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ecuador" title="Ecuador">Ecuador</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oman" title="Oman">Oman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Eden_p.399_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eden_p.399-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AI_Oct88_p177-181_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AI_Oct88_p177-181-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dassault were less supportive of SEPECAT, preferring to promote its own aircraft; several potential customers for the Jaguar were convinced to order Dassault's <a href="/wiki/Dassault_Mirage" title="Dassault Mirage">Mirage series</a> instead.<sup id="cite_ref-Eden_p.399_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eden_p.399-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During 1964, both BAC and its principal domestic rival, <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley" title="Hawker Siddeley">Hawker Siddeley</a>, conducted detailed studies on the prospects of producing stretched versions of their existing airliners, the VC10 and the <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Trident" title="Hawker Siddeley Trident">Hawker Siddeley Trident</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the first half of the following year, BAC submitted its proposals for the production of two separate double-decker versions of the VC10, which was commonly referred to as the <i>Super VC10</i>; however, it was quickly recognised that the British government would be required substantial support for the initiative to succeed, involving "several tens of millions of <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">pounds</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to aviation author Derek Wood, the enlarged double-decker, which was to be equipped with the proposed <a href="/wiki/Rolls-Royce_RB211" title="Rolls-Royce RB211">Rolls-Royce RB178</a> <a href="/wiki/Turbofan" title="Turbofan">turbofan</a> engine, would have had good commercial prospects, yet financing for the programme was not forthcoming and the <a href="/wiki/British_Overseas_Airways_Corporation" title="British Overseas Airways Corporation">British Overseas Airways Corporation</a> (BOAC) has ultimately opted to procure the rival Boeing 747 instead.<sup id="cite_ref-wood_234_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wood_234-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1967, the British, French and German governments agreed to start development of the 300-seat <a href="/wiki/Airbus_A300" title="Airbus A300">Airbus A300</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wood_234_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wood_234-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> BAC argued against the proposal in favour of their <a href="/wiki/BAC_Three-Eleven" title="BAC Three-Eleven">BAC Three-Eleven</a> project, intended as a large wide-bodied airliner like the Airbus A300, <a href="/wiki/Douglas_DC-10" class="mw-redirect" title="Douglas DC-10">Douglas DC-10</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_TriStar" class="mw-redirect" title="Lockheed TriStar">Lockheed TriStar</a>. Like the One-Eleven, it would have carried two Rolls-Royce <a href="/wiki/Turbofan" title="Turbofan">turbofan</a> engines, mounted near the tail, but have been able to accommodate up to 245 passengers seated in an eight abreast configuration at a 34-inch pitch (or up to 300 passengers at a 30-inch pitch).<sup id="cite_ref-wood_236_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wood_236-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The British national airline <a href="/wiki/British_European_Airways" title="British European Airways">British European Airways</a> (BEA) was publicly interested in the type; during August 1970, BEA's chairman, Sir Anthony Milward, declared his personal optimism for the Three-Eleven.<sup id="cite_ref-wood_236_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wood_236-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Britain's potential <a href="/wiki/European_Economic_Community" title="European Economic Community">Common Market</a> partners warned that, since the Three-Eleven would directly compete against the European Airbus, around which they had largely coalesced, the project effectively undermined British loyalty to the EEC which, at this point, the British government was interested in joining.<sup id="cite_ref-wood_236_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wood_236-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 2 December 1970, <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Corfield" title="Frederick Corfield">Frederick Corfield</a>, the Minister for Aviation Supply, announced in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons" title="House of Commons">House of Commons</a> that there would be no official backing from the government for the Three-Eleven programme.<sup id="cite_ref-wood_236_38-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wood_236-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Saudi_Arabia">Saudi Arabia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Saudi Arabia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bac.167.strikemaster.mk87.arp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Bac.167.strikemaster.mk87.arp.jpg/220px-Bac.167.strikemaster.mk87.arp.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Bac.167.strikemaster.mk87.arp.jpg/330px-Bac.167.strikemaster.mk87.arp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Bac.167.strikemaster.mk87.arp.jpg/440px-Bac.167.strikemaster.mk87.arp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="1984" /></a><figcaption>A privately owned <a href="/wiki/BAC_Strikemaster" title="BAC Strikemaster">BAC Strikemaster</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lightning.inflight.arp.750pix.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Lightning.inflight.arp.750pix.jpg/220px-Lightning.inflight.arp.750pix.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Lightning.inflight.arp.750pix.jpg/330px-Lightning.inflight.arp.750pix.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Lightning.inflight.arp.750pix.jpg/440px-Lightning.inflight.arp.750pix.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="468" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning" title="English Electric Lightning">English Electric Lightning</a></figcaption></figure> <p>During the early 1960s, the Saudi Arabian government announced its intention to launch a massive defence acquisition programme involving the replacement of the country's fighter aircraft and the establishment of an advanced air defence and communications network. American companies seemed guaranteed to win much of this work, however, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Saudi_Air_Force" title="Royal Saudi Air Force">Royal Saudi Air Force</a> (RSAF) would ultimately be supplied with large amounts of British-made aircraft and equipment to fulfill their needs. </p><p>By 1964, BAC conducted demonstration flights of their <a href="/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning" title="English Electric Lightning">Lightning</a> in <a href="/wiki/Riyadh" title="Riyadh">Riyadh</a> and, in 1965, <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> signed a <a href="/wiki/Letter_of_intent" title="Letter of intent">letter of intent</a> to purchase Lightning and <a href="/wiki/Strikemaster" class="mw-redirect" title="Strikemaster">Strikemaster</a> aircraft as well as <a href="/wiki/English_Electric_Thunderbird" class="mw-redirect" title="English Electric Thunderbird">Thunderbird</a> surface-to-air missiles. The main contract was signed in 1966 for forty Lightnings and twenty-five (ultimately forty) Strikemasters. In 1973, the Saudi government signed an agreement with the British government which specified BAC as the contractor for all parts of the defence system (<a href="/wiki/Associated_Electrical_Industries" title="Associated Electrical Industries">AEI</a> was previously contracted to supply the radar equipment and <a href="/wiki/Airwork_Services" title="Airwork Services">Airwork Services</a> provided servicing and training). Overall spending by the RSAF was over £1 billion GBP.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>BAC, with the Lightning/Strikemaster contract; <a href="/wiki/British_Aerospace" title="British Aerospace">British Aerospace</a>, with the <a href="/wiki/Al-Yamamah_arms_deal" title="Al-Yamamah arms deal">Al Yamamah</a> contracts; and most recently <a href="/wiki/BAE_Systems" title="BAE Systems">BAE Systems</a>, with the order for <a href="/wiki/Eurofighter_Typhoon" title="Eurofighter Typhoon">Typhoon</a> multi-role fighters, have all benefited from large arms contracts with Saudi Arabia.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tornado">Tornado</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Tornado"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tornado.ze342.arp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Tornado.ze342.arp.jpg/220px-Tornado.ze342.arp.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Tornado.ze342.arp.jpg/330px-Tornado.ze342.arp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Tornado.ze342.arp.jpg/440px-Tornado.ze342.arp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2601" data-file-height="1775" /></a><figcaption>An <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">RAF</a> <a href="/wiki/Panavia_Tornado" title="Panavia Tornado">Panavia Tornado</a> F3 (also known as the <a href="/wiki/Panavia_Tornado_ADV" title="Panavia Tornado ADV">Tornado ADV</a>) taxiing for take-off.</figcaption></figure> <p>In June 1967, the AFVG was cancelled due to the withdrawal of French participation. Britain then turned to a national project, the UK Variable Geometry (UKVG), for which <a href="/wiki/Warton_Aerodrome" title="Warton Aerodrome">BAC Warton</a> was given a design contract by the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Technology" title="Ministry of Technology">Ministry of Technology</a>. These studies eventually became known as the BAC Advanced Combat Aircraft programme. In 1968, Britain was invited to join Canada and the F-104 Consortium (a grouping of Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands), all of whom wished to replace their current aircraft with a common design, subsequently described as the Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA). </p><p>On 26 March 1969, <a href="/wiki/Panavia_Aircraft_GmbH" class="mw-redirect" title="Panavia Aircraft GmbH">Panavia Aircraft GmbH</a> was formed by BAC, <a href="/wiki/Messerschmitt-B%C3%B6lkow-Blohm" title="Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm">MBB</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fiat" title="Fiat">Fiat</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fokker" title="Fokker">Fokker</a>. In May, a "project definition phase" was commenced, concluding in early 1970. Two aircraft designs resulted: the single-seat Panavia 100 and the twin-seat Panavia 200. The RAF favoured the 200, as did Germany after its initial enthusiasm for the 100. </p><p>In September 1971, the governments of Britain, Italy and Germany signed an Intention to Proceed (ITP) with the <a href="/wiki/Panavia_Tornado" title="Panavia Tornado">Panavia Tornado</a>. On 30 October 1974, the first British prototype (the second to fly) took off from the BAC airfield at Warton. The three governments signed the contract for Batch 1 of the aircraft on 29 July 1976. BAC and subsequently British Aerospace would deliver 228 <a href="/wiki/RAF_Tornado_GR1" class="mw-redirect" title="RAF Tornado GR1">Tornado GR1s</a> and 152 <a href="/wiki/RAF_Tornado_F3" class="mw-redirect" title="RAF Tornado F3">Tornado F3s</a> to the RAF. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Merger_speculation_and_nationalisation">Merger speculation and nationalisation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Merger speculation and nationalisation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For most of its history, BAC was the subject of rumour and speculation that it was to merge with <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley" title="Hawker Siddeley">Hawker Siddeley Aviation</a> (HSA). On 21 November 1966, <a href="/wiki/Fred_Mulley" title="Fred Mulley">Fred Mulley</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Aviation" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Aviation">Minister of Aviation</a>, announced in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> that: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>...the government had come to the conclusion that the national interest would best be served by a merger of the airframe interests of BAC and Hawker Siddeley into a single company.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The government envisaged acquiring BAC's capital and merging it with Hawker Siddeley. The ownership of BAC would thus give the government a minority stake in the new company. Although BAC's parent companies were prepared to sell their shares for a reasonable price, the government proposal, in their view, undervalued the group. By August 1967, the success of the BAC 1–11 and defence sales to Saudi Arabia made the prospect of the parent companies selling their shares less likely. In December 1967, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Benn" title="Tony Benn">Tony Benn</a>, the Minister of Technology, while reiterating his desire to see a merged BAC and HSA, admitted it would not be possible.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Akin to BAC, the Hawker Siddeley Group was expanded by merger, while engine design and manufacturing was concentrated at Rolls-Royce and the newly formed <a href="/wiki/Bristol-Siddeley_Engines" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol-Siddeley Engines">Bristol-Siddeley Engines</a>. Helicopter development was given to <a href="/wiki/Westland_Helicopters" title="Westland Helicopters">Westland Helicopters</a>. </p><p>During 1966, <a href="/wiki/Rolls-Royce_plc" class="mw-redirect" title="Rolls-Royce plc">Rolls-Royce</a> acquired Bristol Aeroplane from BAC, integrating the firm into its Bristol Siddeley aero-engine business, but declared it had no interest in the BAC shareholding. Despite this, Rolls-Royce still had not disposed of its BAC shareholding when the business was declared to be <a href="/wiki/Bankrupt" class="mw-redirect" title="Bankrupt">bankrupt</a> during 1971. The 20% share was eventually acquired from <a href="/wiki/Administrative_receivership" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative receivership">receivership</a> by Vickers and <a href="/wiki/The_General_Electric_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="The General Electric Company">GEC</a>, which had acquired English Electric during 1968. </p><p>On 29 April 1977, BAC, the Hawker Siddeley Group and <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Aviation" title="Scottish Aviation">Scottish Aviation</a> were nationalised and merged under the provisions of <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_and_Shipbuilding_Industries_Act_1977" title="Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977">Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977</a>. This new group was established as a statutory corporation, <a href="/wiki/British_Aerospace" title="British Aerospace">British Aerospace</a> (BAe). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Products">Products</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Products"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Products usually known under the BAC name include: </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aircraft">Aircraft</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Aircraft"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AFVG" class="mw-redirect" title="AFVG">AFVG</a> proposed and cancelled multi-role military jet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BAC_One-Eleven" title="BAC One-Eleven">BAC One-Eleven</a> jetliner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BAC_Two-Eleven_and_Three-Eleven" class="mw-redirect" title="BAC Two-Eleven and Three-Eleven">BAC Two-Eleven and Three-Eleven</a> – proposed and cancelled jetliners</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairey_Delta_2" title="Fairey Delta 2">BAC 221</a> – jet fighter concept modified Fairey Delta 2 for Concorde development work</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BAC_Jet_Provost" title="BAC Jet Provost">BAC Jet Provost</a> trainer aircraft</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BAC_Strikemaster" title="BAC Strikemaster">BAC Strikemaster</a> military attack jet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concorde" title="Concorde">BAC/Aérospatiale Concorde</a> – supersonic jetliner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BAC_TSR-2" title="BAC TSR-2">BAC TSR-2</a> Tactical strike/reconnaissance jet fighter</li> <li>BAC/<a href="/wiki/Bristol_188" title="Bristol 188">Bristol 188</a> – experimental jet</li> <li>BAC/<a href="/wiki/Bristol_Britannia" title="Bristol Britannia">Bristol Britannia</a> – Turboprop airliner</li> <li>BAC/<a href="/wiki/English_Electric_Canberra" title="English Electric Canberra">English Electric Canberra</a> – jet bomber</li> <li>BAC/<a href="/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning" title="English Electric Lightning">English Electric Lightning</a> – supersonic jet fighter</li> <li>BAC/<a href="/wiki/Hunting_H.126" title="Hunting H.126">Hunting H.126</a> – experimental aircraft</li> <li>BAC/Hunting Jet Provost – military jet trainer</li> <li>BAC/Vickers <a href="/wiki/Supermarine_Scimitar" title="Supermarine Scimitar">Supermarine Scimitar</a> – naval jet strike fighter</li> <li>BAC/<a href="/wiki/Vickers_VC10" title="Vickers VC10">Vickers VC10</a> – jet liner</li> <li>BAC/<a href="/wiki/Vickers_Viscount" title="Vickers Viscount">Vickers Viscount</a> – Turboprop airliner</li> <li>BAC/<a href="/wiki/Vickers_Vanguard" title="Vickers Vanguard">Vickers Vanguard</a> – Turboprop airliner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panavia_Tornado" title="Panavia Tornado">Panavia Tornado</a>/<a href="/wiki/Panavia_Tornado_ADV" title="Panavia Tornado ADV">Panavia Tornado ADV</a> – multi-role attack jet fighter; multinational project</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SEPECAT_Jaguar" title="SEPECAT Jaguar">SEPECAT Jaguar</a> – Ground attack jet fighter; Anglo-French project</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Missiles">Missiles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Missiles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>BAC <a href="/wiki/Rapier_missile" class="mw-redirect" title="Rapier missile">Rapier missile</a> <a href="/wiki/Surface-to-air_missile" title="Surface-to-air missile">surface-to-air missile</a></li> <li>BAC <a href="/wiki/Sea_Skua" title="Sea Skua">Sea Skua</a> helicopter-launched naval air-to-surface missile</li> <li>BAC <a href="/wiki/Sea_Wolf_missile" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea Wolf missile">Sea Wolf missile</a> naval/shipborne-guided surface-to-air missile</li> <li>BAC <a href="/wiki/Swingfire" title="Swingfire">Swingfire</a> anti-tank missile</li> <li>BAC/<a href="/wiki/Vickers_Vigilant" title="Vickers Vigilant">Vickers Vigilant</a> wire-guided anti-tank missile</li></ul> <p>In addition BAC continued with the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Bloodhound" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol Bloodhound">Bristol Bloodhound</a> and <a href="/wiki/English_Electric_Thunderbird" class="mw-redirect" title="English Electric Thunderbird">English Electric Thunderbird</a> surface-to-air missiles. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spacecraft">Spacecraft</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Spacecraft"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>BAC was involved in uncrewed spacecraft, principally satellites </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ariel_4" title="Ariel 4">Ariel 4</a> – research satellite</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intelsat" title="Intelsat">Intelsat</a> – communications satellite; BAC provided several sub-systems to Hughes (the prime contractor) and assembled Intelsat 4 as well as providing the structure solar panels and battery pack<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prospero_X-3" class="mw-redirect" title="Prospero X-3">Prospero X-3</a> – experimental satellite</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MUSTARD" class="mw-redirect" title="MUSTARD">Multi-Unit Space Transport And Recovery Device</a> (MUSTARD) was a proposed launch system consisting of three reusable lifting body craft operating together.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Key_people">Key people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Key people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aircraft_designers_and_engineers">Aircraft designers and engineers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Aircraft designers and engineers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Baron" title="Colin Baron">Colin Baron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Creasey" title="Ray Creasey">Ray Creasey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Edwards_(aviation)" title="George Edwards (aviation)">George Edwards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Ewans" title="Roy Ewans">Roy Ewans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Page" title="Frederick Page">Frederick Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Russell" title="Archibald Russell">Archibald Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Smith_(engineer)" title="Tom Smith (engineer)">Tom Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Strang_(engineer)" title="Bill Strang (engineer)">Bill Strang</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Test_pilots">Test pilots</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Test pilots"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roland_Beamont" title="Roland Beamont">Roland Beamont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Dell" title="Jimmy Dell">Jimmy Dell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Eagles" title="David Eagles">David Eagles</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading 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divert funds and data to their own VG projects.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Aircraft_Corporation&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Charles Gardner, <i>British Aircraft Corporation. A history by Charles Gardner</i>, B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1981 (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7134-3815-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-7134-3815-0">0-7134-3815-0</a>), p. 38.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-gard_37-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-gard_37_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gard_37_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Gardner 1981, p. 37.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"An Industry Regrouped." <i>Flight</i>, 2 September 1960, p. 368.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Force V: The history of Britain's airborne deterrent, by Andrew Brookes. Jane's Publishing Co Ltd; First Edition 1 Jan. 1982, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0710602383" title="Special:BookSources/0710602383">0710602383</a>, p.116-117.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061007000000/http://www.boc.net/history.html">"Bristol Owners Club : History of the Bristol Marque"</a>. 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Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK: The Crowood Press, 2010. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84797-211-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84797-211-8">978-1-84797-211-8</a>.</li> <li>Bowman, Martin W. <i>SEPECAT Jaguar.</i> London: Pen and Sword Books, 2007. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-84415-545-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-84415-545-5">1-84415-545-5</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFConway2005" class="citation book cs1">Conway, Eric (2005). <i>High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999</i>. JHU Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-8067-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-8067-4"><bdi>978-0-8018-8067-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=High-Speed+Dreams%3A+NASA+and+the+Technopolitics+of+Supersonic+Transportation%2C+1945%E2%80%931999&rft.pub=JHU+Press&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-8018-8067-4&rft.aulast=Conway&rft.aufirst=Eric&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABritish+Aircraft+Corporation" class="Z3988"></span>.</li> <li>Eden, Paul. <i>The Encyclopedia of Modern Military Aircraft</i>. London, UK: Amber Books, 2004. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-904687-84-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-904687-84-9">1-904687-84-9</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoss1978" class="citation book cs1">Ross, Douglas (March 1978). <i>The Concorde Compromise: The Politics of Decision-making</i>. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Concorde+Compromise%3A+The+Politics+of+Decision-making&rft.pub=Bulletin+of+the+Atomic+Scientists&rft.date=1978-03&rft.aulast=Ross&rft.aufirst=Douglas&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABritish+Aircraft+Corporation" class="Z3988"></span>.</li> <li>Hill, C.N. "A Vertical Empire: The History of the UK Rocket and Space Programme, 1950–1971." <i>World Scientific</i>, 2001. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-78326-145-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-78326-145-5">1-78326-145-5</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_W._R._Taylor" title="John W. R. Taylor">Taylor, John W. R.</a> <i>Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1971–72</i>. London: Sampson Low Marston & Co, 1971. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-354-00094-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-354-00094-2">0-354-00094-2</a>.</li> <li>Sharp, Dan. <i>British Secret Projects 5: Britain's Space Shuttle.</i> Crécy, 2016. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-9108-0902-0" title="Special:BookSources/1-9108-0902-0">1-9108-0902-0</a>.</li> <li>"The Decade of the Shamsher: Part One". <i>Air International</i>, Vol. 35, No. 4, October 1988, pp. 175–183. ISSN 0306-5634.</li> <li>Wood, Derek. <i>Project Cancelled</i>. Macdonald and Jane's Publishers, 1975. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-356-08109-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-356-08109-5">0-356-08109-5</a>.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1968/1968%20-%201847.html">"World News: Jaguar First Flight."</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Flight_International" title="Flight International">Flight International</a></i> via <i>flightglobal.com,</i> 12 September 1968, p. 391.</li></ul> </div> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output 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<td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> <td>5</td> <td>6</td> <td>7</td> <td>8</td> <td>9 </td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> <td>5</td> <td>6</td> <td>7</td> <td>8</td> <td>9 </td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> <td>4 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="23" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Short_Brothers" title="Short Brothers">Short Brothers & Harland Limited</a> </td> <td colspan="15" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Short_Brothers" title="Short Brothers">Short Brothers Limited</a> </td> <td colspan="12" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Bombardier_Inc." title="Bombardier Inc.">Short Brothers plc</a><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="16" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Handley_Page" title="Handley Page">Handley Page</a> </td> <td colspan="9"> </td> <td colspan="10"> </td> <td colspan="10"> </td> <td colspan="5"> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="7" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Miles_Aircraft" title="Miles Aircraft">FG Miles</a> </td> <td colspan="8" rowspan="2" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Beagle_Aircraft" title="Beagle Aircraft">Beagle Aircraft</a><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td colspan="10" rowspan="2"> </td> <td colspan="10" rowspan="2"> </td> <td colspan="10" rowspan="2"> </td> <td colspan="5" rowspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="7" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Auster_Aircraft" title="Auster Aircraft">Auster</a> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="22" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Aviation" title="Scottish Aviation">Scottish Aviation</a><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td colspan="22" rowspan="10" style="background-color:#b6d1ed"><a href="/wiki/British_Aerospace" title="British Aerospace">British Aerospace</a> (BAe) </td> <td colspan="6" rowspan="11" style="background-color:#e6b7b7"><a href="/wiki/BAE_Systems" title="BAE Systems">BAE Systems</a> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="6" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Blackburn_Aircraft" title="Blackburn Aircraft">Blackburn</a> </td> <td colspan="16" rowspan="5" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley" title="Hawker Siddeley">Hawker Siddeley Aviation</a><br />Hawker Siddeley Dynamics </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="6" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Avro" title="Avro">Avro</a> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="5" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/De_Havilland" title="De Havilland">de Havilland</a> </td> <td colspan="17" rowspan="3" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="5" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Folland_Aircraft" title="Folland Aircraft">Folland</a> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="6" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley" title="Hawker Siddeley">Hawker Siddeley</a><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="5" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Vickers-Armstrongs" title="Vickers-Armstrongs">Vickers-Armstrongs</a> </td> <td colspan="17" rowspan="4" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">British Aircraft Corporation</a> (BAC)<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="5" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/English_Electric" title="English Electric">English Electric</a><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="5" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Bristol_Aeroplane_Company" title="Bristol Aeroplane Company">Bristol</a> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="5" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Hunting_Aircraft" title="Hunting Aircraft">Hunting</a> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="13" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/General_Electric_Company" title="General Electric Company">The General Electric Company (GEC)</a> </td> <td colspan="20" rowspan="2" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Marconi_Company" title="Marconi Company">The Marconi Company</a> </td> <td colspan="11" rowspan="2" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Marconi_Electronic_Systems" title="Marconi Electronic Systems">GEC-Marconi/Marconi Electronic Systems</a> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E0E0E0;"> <td colspan="13" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/English_Electric" title="English Electric">The English Electric Company</a><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td colspan="6" style="background-color:#c0c0c0"><a href="/wiki/Marconi_plc" class="mw-redirect" title="Marconi plc">Marconi plc</a> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:left"> <td colspan="50"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-lower-alpha" style="column-width: 40em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Part of <a href="/wiki/Bombardier_Inc." title="Bombardier Inc.">Bombardier Inc.</a>; since 2019 part of <a href="/wiki/Spirit_AeroSystems" title="Spirit AeroSystems">Spirit AeroSystems</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Government owned from 1966 to liquidation</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Purchased rights for various Beagle and Handley-Page designs from the liquidator.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Comprising <a href="/wiki/Hawker_Aircraft" title="Hawker Aircraft">Hawker Aircraft</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gloster_Aircraft_Company" title="Gloster Aircraft Company">Gloster Aircraft Company</a> and <a href="/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth_Aircraft" title="Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft">Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">BAC comprised the aviation interests of the companies that formed it, and wholly owned Hunting Aircraft.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">English Electric Aircraft, a subsidiary of the English Electric Company.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a 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title="GKN">GKN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hybrid_Air_Vehicles" title="Hybrid Air Vehicles">Hybrid Air Vehicles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IRVIN-GQ" title="IRVIN-GQ">IRVIN-GQ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonardo_(company)" title="Leonardo (company)">Leonardo</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AgustaWestland" title="AgustaWestland">AgustaWestland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonardo_(company)" title="Leonardo (company)">Finmeccanica UK Ltd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_UK" title="Lockheed Martin UK">Lockheed Martin UK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Aerospace_and_Defence_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group">Marshall Aerospace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin-Baker" title="Martin-Baker">Martin-Baker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meggitt" title="Meggitt">Meggitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qinetiq" title="Qinetiq">Qinetiq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Holdings" title="Rolls-Royce Holdings">Rolls-Royce</a></li> <li><a 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