| 词条 | Scottish Aviation |
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|name = Scottish Aviation Limited |logo = |type = |fate = Merged into British Aerospace |successor = |foundation = 1935 |defunct = 1977 |location = Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland |industry = Aerospace, engineering |key_people = |products = |num_employees = |parent = |subsid = }}Scottish Aviation Limited was a Scottish aircraft manufacturer, based at Prestwick in Ayrshire.[1] HistoryThe company were founded in 1935.[2][3] Originally a flying school operator, the company took on maintenance work in 1938. During the Second World War, Scottish Aviation was involved in aircraft fitting for the war effort. This included maintenance and conversion of the Consolidated Liberator bomber. The factory building of Scottish Aviation, which still exists today, was formerly the Palace of Engineering at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. The building was dismantled from its Glasgow site and reconstructed. Post-war it built robust military STOL utility aircraft such as the Pioneer and larger Twin Pioneer. Much later the company built some Jetstream turboprop transport and navigational training aircraft following the collapse of the Handley Page Aircraft Company (which designed the type). It built Bulldog trainers after the demise of their original manufacturer, Beagle Aircraft Limited. In November 1958, redundancies affecting almost 800 of their 2,500 staff were announced.[4] Scottish Aviation merged with the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, and Hawker Siddeley Dynamics to form British Aerospace in 1977. Much of the former Scottish Aviation assets now belong to Spirit AeroSystems. Aircraft(first flight in brackets)
CarsBetween 1964 and 1966 Scottish Aviation designed a small battery-electric car, the Scottish Aviation Scamp, of which twelve pre-production examples were built.[5] See also{{Portal|Scotland|Companies|Aviation}}
ReferencesCitations1. ^Jackson 1974, p.124 2. ^{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RT5AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=alkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4079%2C1402674 |title=Scots firm plans air network. Global Service Based on Prestwick |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=27 October 1944 |page=4 |accessdate=24 November 2016}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.gpia.co.uk/AirportInfo/history.asp |title= airport history |publisher=Glasgow Prestwick Airport |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331212256/http://www.gpia.co.uk/AirportInfo/history.asp |archivedate=31 March 2009 |date=15 July 2009}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vWhAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XpUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3114%2C2460174 |title=Further Shock at Prestwick |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=21 November 1958 |page=1 |accessdate=24 November 2016}} 5. ^{{cite journal |last=Carr |first=Richard |date=1 July 1966 |title=In search of the town car|journal=Design |issue=211 |pages=29–37 |publisher=Council of Industrial Design}} Bibliography{{refbegin}}
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