Timeline of British aerospace companies since 1955
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Short Brothers & Harland Limited Short Brothers Limited Short Brothers plc[a]
Handley Page
FG Miles Beagle Aircraft[b]
Auster
Scottish Aviation[c] British Aerospace (BAe) BAE Systems
Blackburn Hawker Siddeley Aviation
Hawker Siddeley Dynamics
Avro
de Havilland
Folland
Hawker Siddeley[d]
Vickers-Armstrongs British Aircraft Corporation (BAC)[e]
English Electric[f]
Bristol
Hunting
The General Electric Company (GEC) The Marconi Company GEC-Marconi/Marconi Electronic Systems
The English Electric Company[g] Marconi plc
  1. ^ Part of Bombardier Inc.; since 2019 part of Spirit AeroSystems
  2. ^ Government owned from 1966 to liquidation
  3. ^ Purchased rights for various Beagle and Handley-Page designs from the liquidator.
  4. ^ Comprising Hawker Aircraft, Gloster Aircraft Company and Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft.
  5. ^ BAC comprised the aviation interests of the companies that formed it, and wholly owned Hunting Aircraft.
  6. ^ English Electric Aircraft, a subsidiary of the English Electric Company.
  7. ^ GEC purchased EE and with it The Marconi Company and EE's shareholding in BAC, through its subsidiary EE Aircraft.
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