Hawker Pacific Aerospace ( short „ HPA “) is a MRO-Service ( Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul ) company which offers landing gear and hydraulic MRO services for all major aircraft types.

Lufthansa Technik ( short LHT ), a subsidiary of Lufthansa German Airlines, acquired Hawker Pacific in 2002.

Hawker Pacific Aerospace was formed in 1980.

In 1991, Hawker Siddeley was absorbed by BTR Aerospace Group .</ br > In 1994, Hawker Pacific Aerospace merged with Dunlop Aviation Inc and in 1996, Hawker Pacific Aerospace was sold </ br > by BTR and became a stand-alone company.

In 1998, Hawker Pacific completed its initial public offering of common </ br > stock and used the proceeds to acquire the landing gear, flap track and flap carriage operation from British Airways.

In 2002, Lufthansa Technik acquired 100 % ownership of Hawker Pacific Aerospace including its UK location.

Hawker was </ br > added to Lufthansa Technik's Landing Gear Division to form a global network for Landing Gear MRO services .</ br > In January 2011, Hawker Pacific Aerospace UK was sold to Lufthansa Technik and renamed into Lufthansa Technik </ br > Landing Gear Services UK.

Hawker Pacific Aerospace has three business divisions:

* Website of Hawker Pacific Aerospace

The Falcon 20 aircraft were onsold from his Sydney base, at Hawker Pacific Mascot, to civilian buyers.

For example, in Hawker Pacific Pty Ltd v Helicopter Charter Pty Ltd ( 1991 ) 22 NSWLR 298, the contract was set aside after Hawker Pacific's threats to withhold the helicopter from the plaintiff unless further payments were made for repairing a botched paint job.

In 1980 the thriving general aviation division was separated as Hawker Pacific but both companies remained part of Hawker Siddeley.

In 1998 the company was bought by Tenix and Hawker Pacific was sold to Swedish company Celsius.

The RAAF's DHC-4 Caribous, which had been operated for some years by No. 38 Squadron out of RAAF Base Townsville, were retired at the end of 2009, to be replaced by Super King Airs built by Hawker Pacific.

Biggles has an unusually lengthy career, flying a number of aircraft representative of the history of British military aviation, from Sopwith Camels during World War I, Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires in World War II, right up to the Hawker Hunter jet fighter in a postwar adventure ( Biggles in the Terai ).

Hawker comes from a family with a long history of political involvement.

Concentrating on Birmingham's transport history, Move It contains all of the vehicles on display in Thinktank, including the LMS Princess Coronation Class steam locomotive, 46235 City of Birmingham, Railton Mobil Special, a Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane hanging from the ceiling, and Birmingham Corporation Tramways tram 395.

CC & F history goes back to 1897, but the main company was established in 1909 from an amalgamation of several companies and later became part of Hawker Siddeley Canada through the purchase by A. V.

Initially equipped with ex-RAF Hawker Hunters, the air force soon began expansion with six Dassault / Dornier Alpha Jets in 1979.

Small numbers of Hawker Hurricanes arrived from the United Kingdom, Morane-Saulnier M. S. 406s from France, Fiat G. 50s from Italy, a few dozen Curtiss Hawk 75s captured by the Germans in France and Norway then sold to Finland, when Germany began warming up its ties with Finland, and numerous Brewster B239s from the neutral USA strengthened the FiAF.

In the early 1970s Hawker Siddeley's Canada Car and Foundry subsidiary began to build rapid transit vehicles for the North American market.

The roots of the ASRAAM dated back to 1968 when development began on the Hawker Siddeley SRAAM (' Taildog '), but this project ended in 1974 with no production orders.

The RPAF began with 2, 332 personnel, a fleet of 24 Tempest II fighter-bombers, 16 Hawker Typhoon fighters, 2 H. P. 57 Halifax bombers, 2 Auster aircraft, 12 North American Harvard trainers and 10 de Havilland Tiger Moth biplanes.

In 1813 Dr Hawker began the Corpus Christi Society to search out and seek the distressed members of Christ ’ s body.

Sea Dart began as Hawker Siddeley project " CF. 299 ", a weapon to replace the Royal Navy's first-generation long-range surface-to-air missile, Sea Slug.

As technology rapidly advanced, new young aviators began to define the realm of air-to-air combat, such as Max Immelmann, Oswald Boelcke, and Lanoe Hawker.

This inability led to the concept being abandoned as soon as the experiments that led to the development of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier in the 1960s began to bear fruit.

At 06: 00, the three columns began their advance, supported overhead by a standing patrol of Hawker Hurricane fighters.

By the mid-1960s, Hawker Siddeley began to close money-losing subsidiaries and identified DOSCO's coal mines and steel mill as candidates for closure.

The modern British tradition of celebrating Harvest Festival in churches began in 1843, when the Reverend Robert Hawker invited parishioners to a special thanksgiving service at his church at Morwenstow in Cornwall.

The Squadron converted to Hawker Hurricanes and then began fighter-bomber operations from November.

In 1994, Raytheon merged Beechcraft with the Hawker product line it had acquired in 1993 from British Aerospace, forming Raytheon Aircraft Company.

The earlier Hawker Hurricane and the Spitfire were the mainstay of RAF Fighter Command fighter aircraft which fought off the Luftwaffe bombing raids with fighter escorts during the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940.

Of dozens of VTOL and V / STOL designs tried from the 1950s to 1980s, only the subsonic Hawker Siddeley Harrier and Yak-38 Forger reached operational status, with the Forger being withdrawn after the fall of the Soviet Union.

The supersonic Hawker Siddeley P. 1154 which competed with the Mirage IIIV for NATO use was cancelled even as the aircraft were being built.

The ADDF — with 15, 000 men and primarily British and Jordanian officers — consisted of three army battalions, an artillery battery, twelve Hawker Hunter fighter-bombers, and a sea defence wing of four fast patrol boats.

This was developed side by side with an airframe, the Hawker P. 1127, which became subsequently the Kestrel and then entered production as the Hawker Siddeley Harrier, though the supersonic Hawker Siddeley P. 1154 was canceled in 1965.

* April 1 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force.

A new series of small carriers, the Invincible class anti-submarine warfare ships ( known as " through deck cruisers ") were built and equipped with the Sea Harrier a derivative of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier VTOL aircraft.

Also included among combat aircraft are long-range maritime patrol aircraft, such as the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod and the S-3 Viking that are often equipped to attack with anti-ship missiles and anti-submarine weapons.

In parallel with these supersonic studies several subsonic designs were schemed in this period, including the Type 200 ( a competitor of the Hawker Siddeley Trident ) and its derivatives, the Type 201 and Type 205.

In 1977, BAC was nationalised along with Scottish Aviation and Hawker Siddeley to form British Aerospace ( BAe ).

* Alliteration was particularly common ; e. g. aircraft from Vickers-Armstrongs were given names starting with V, Hawker Aircraft, names starting with H, etc.

Sometimes a named RAF version of an aircraft would be cancelled with the naval version entering service without a corresponding land-based name, e. g. Hawker Sea Fury, de Havilland Sea Vixen.

Mythological names, particularly with an association with water were common, such as Blackburn Iris-named for the goddess of sea and sky, and Nimrod the mighty hunter, used for the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod and Hawker Nimrod.