In the Canadian market, they also acquired Hawker Siddeley Canada ’ s Thunder Bay facilities and UTDC ( formerly of Kingston ).

On 1 June 2002, Cronje's scheduled flight home from Johannesburg to George was grounded so he hitched a ride as the only passenger aboard a Hawker Siddeley HS 748 turboprop aircraft.

* 1979 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.

The United Kingdom's aircraft is a modified Hawker Siddeley Andover C Mk 1, XS596.

British Aerospace was a combination of major aircraft companies British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley and others.

* 1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.

The most famous examples are the Hawker Siddeley Harrier and the Sea Harrier.

By 1964 the first development aircraft, the Hawker Siddeley Kestrel, were flying.

The first Hawker Siddeley Harrier flew in 1967.

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to 1980s, only the subsonic Hawker Siddeley Harrier and Yak-38 Forger reached operational status, with the Forger being withdrawn after the fall of the Soviet Union.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.

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.

* March 14 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.

This called for the nationalisation and merger of the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Scottish Aviation.

* BAe / Hawker Siddeley Harrier

* BAe / Hawker Siddeley Nimrod

Aircraft production operations were absorbed into Hawker Siddeley and its engine operations into Bristol Siddeley, as part of the rationalisation of British aircraft manufacturers, and the Blackburn name was dropped completely in 1963.

In 1969 Crompton Parkinson Ltd was downsized and operations moved elsewhere after a takeover by Hawker Siddeley and the site was taken over by the Marconi Company and became the base for the newly formed Marconi Radar Systems Ltd.

While machine guns and cannon were sufficient against infantry and light vehicles, for operations against tanks heavier weapons were needed such as the 40 mm Vickers S gun which equipped the Hawker Hurricane to good effect in North Africa Campaign ( notably No. 6 Squadron RAF ).

SAS also maintains six aircraft for use in company operations including Bell 407 helicopter, a Boeing 737 Business Jet, an 8 passenger Cessna Citation X, a pair of 12pax Dassault Falcon 900's and fractional ownership in a six-passenger Hawker 400.

In the first quarter of 2007 Raytheon sold its aircraft operations, which is now operating as Hawker Beechcraft.

The aircraft division would become Hawker Siddeley Aviation ( HSA ) and the guided missile and space technology operations as Hawker Siddeley Dynamics ( HSD ).

Orenda Aerospace, the only remaining original company from the Avro Canada / Hawker Siddeley Canada era, although greatly diminished in size and scope of operations, became part of the Magellan Aerospace Corporation.

It replaced its Wapitis with Hawker Harts in February 1932, operations continuing as before.

In December 1931 it was re-equipped with Hawker Harts, operations continuing as before, also being used as part of the relief effort following the 1935 Balochistan earthquake, flying supplies to devastated Quetta and carrying out medical evacuations.

On the night of 7-8 June, the Glorious, under the command of Captain Guy D ' Oyly-Hughes ( who was a submarine specialist and had only 10 months experience in aircraft carrier operations ), took on board 10 Gloster Gladiators and eight Hawker Hurricanes from No. 46 Squadron RAF and No. 263 Squadron Royal Air Force, the first landing of modern aircraft without arrestor hooks on a carrier.

In 1970, Bunnings bought the merchandising and sawmilling operations of the Hawker Siddeley Group.

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

Hawker Siddeley sought to eliminate money losing operations and in 1965, DOSCO announced that its mines had only 15 years of production left and concluded that the cost of opening new underground mines in the Sydney Coal Field would be too expensive.

Some smaller designs have been used as the basis for specialist fighters, such as night fighters, and a number of fighters, such as the Hawker Hurricane were used as ground attack aircraft bombers, replacing earlier conventional light bombers that proved unable to defend themselves and carry a reasonable bombload.

In World War II, the USAAF and RAF often favored fighters over dedicated light bombers or dive bombers, and types such as the P-47 Thunderbolt and Hawker Hurricane that were no longer competitive fighters were relegated to ground attack.

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.

Nevertheless, jets were not yet wholly superior to propeller aircraft and a flight of ground-attack Hawker Sea Furies downed a MiG-15 and damaged others in an engagement.

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.

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.

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

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.

The craft's structure was built by Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and the rocket engine were the Rolls-Royce RZ2.

While the majority of fixed-wing aircraft design and construction lie in the British Aircraft Corporation and the Hawker Siddeley Group the helicopter divisions of Bristol, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ( with their hovercraft ) were merged with Westland to form Westland Helicopters in 1961.

The chairmanship of Eric Mensforth from 1953 – 1968 marked the start of the transition, which was aided by the government when in 1959 – 1961 they forced the merger of the 20 or so aviation firms into three groups, British Aircraft Corporation and Hawker Siddeley Group took over fixed-wing designs, while the helicopter divisions of Bristol, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ( with their hovercraft ) were merged with Westland to form Westland Helicopters in 1961.

Mark recommends to SAC's commander, General Hawker, that SAC ask Washington to transfer the direct authority to use nuclear weapons, since the weapons-release process takes at least a minute and a half, and the U. S. expects only about a fifteen minute warning if the Soviet Union were to attack.

Many aircraft were manufactured there and on the Slough Trading Estate during World War II, including the Hawker Hurricane, Tempest and Sea Fury.

Trees were also planted in some sections of the concrete Track to help conceal the Hawker and Vickers aircraft factories there.

The Hawker factory premises were also bombed and damaged two days later, but with no loss of life or serious disruption to Hurricane production.

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

They also fielded a powerful artillery corps equipped with Soviet 122 mm howitzer 2A18 ( D-30 ) and 130 mm towed field gun M1954 ( M-46 ) pieces, along with truck-mounted BM-11 130 mm and towed BM-12 ( Chinese Type 63 ) 107 mm MBRLs, coupled by Man-portable, shoulder-launched Soviet SAM-7 ‘ Grail ’ AA missiles which were used to bring down two Lebanese Air Force Hawker Hunter fighter jets during the 1983-84 ‘ Mountain War ’.

The Royal Navy Hawker Sea Fury fighters and the U. S. Vought F4U Corsair and Douglas A-1 Skyraider were operated during the Korean War while the latter continued to be used throughout the Vietnam War.