Template:BAE Systems evolution

Timeline of British aerospace companies since 1955


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Short Brothers and Harland Ltd.																							Short Brothers Ltd.															Short Brothers plc ^[7]
Handley Page

F. G. Miles							Beagle Aircraft^[1]

Auster

Scottish Aviation ^[2]																						British Aerospace (BAe)																						BAE Systems

Hawker Siddeley ^[3]						Hawker Siddeley Aviation Hawker Siddeley Dynamics

Blackburn

Avro

de Havilland

Folland

Vickers-Armstrongs					British Aircraft Corporation (BAC)^[5]

English Electric ^[4]

Bristol

Hunting

The General Electric Company (GEC)													The Marconi Company																				GEC-Marconi/Marconi Electronic Systems

The English Electric Company ^[6]																																												Marconi plc

Government owned from 1966 to liquidation Purchased rights for various Beagle and Handley-Page designs from the liquidator. Comprising Hawker Aircraft, Gloster Aircraft Company and Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft. English Electric Aircraft, a subsidiary of the English Electric Company. BAC comprised the aviation interests of the companies that formed it, and wholly-owned Hunting Aircraft. GEC purchased EE and with it The Marconi Company and EE's shareholding in BAC, through its subsidiary EE Aircraft. Part of Bombardier inc.