Randy Groom, now President of Groom Aviation LLC, was President from 2003 to 2007, when Raytheon sold Raytheon Aircraft to Hawker Beechcraft.

The period of improving the same biplane design over and over was now coming to an end, and the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire finally started to supplant the Gloster Gladiator and Hawker Fury biplanes but many of the former remained in front-line service well past the start of World War II.

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.

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

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.

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 1934, Hawker Siddeley was given the contract to build an aircraft for </ br > the Royal Airforce ( RAF ). Hawker Siddeley went on to produce many other aircraft for the war effort.

Although the Hawker Siddeley name remains, the aviation section was absorbed </ br > by British Aerospace Corp. in 1977.

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.

Hawker and a </ br > group of people took over all of Sopwith's patent rights, forming Hawker Engineering in 1918.

After Hawker's death Thomas Sopwith </ br > became Chairman of Hawker Engineering.

In 1933, Hawker Engineering became Hawker Aircraft, and shortly after </ br > that became Hawker Siddeley Company.

1967, Hawker Siddeley produced an aircraft, which revolutionized the combat aircraft role of both helicopters and </ br > jet fighters-the Hawker Siddeley Harrier.

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.

Hawker Pacific Aerospace's history began in 1912 with Harry Hawker asking Thomas Sopwith for flying lessons .</ br > Within a few years Hawker became Sopwith's top test pilot.

An additional guardian, a Hawker Hurricane in the colours of No. 303 ( Polish ) Squadron was added to the area in November 2010.

Where the dogtooth is added as an afterthought as for example with the Hawker Hunter and some variants of the Quest Kodiak, the dogtooth is created by adding an extension to the outer span only of the leading edge.

152 Squadron was using Meteor night fighters NF. 11, and these were added to in 1954 by Hawker Hunters, from 257 and 263 Squadrons, the UK's next generation fighter, which helped secure Wattisham's future as a major fighter base

In 2005 the airline added three Raytheon Hawker 800 aircraft to its fleet and was to take delivery of a fourth aircraft in June 2005.

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

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

In 1964 a tripartite squadron, comprising members of the British, United States and German armed forces, was formed at West Raynham to evaluate the Hawker P1127 Vertical Take-Off and Landing ( VTOL ) strike fighter aircraft.

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* 8 June 1944, a group of RAF Hawker Typhoons attacked the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division ( United States ) on the Isigny Highway, France, causing 24 casualties.

Around noon on the same day, RAF Hawker Typhoon of the 2TAF was called in to assist the US 823rd Tank Destroyer Battalion in stopping an attack by the 2nd SS Panzer Division between Sourdeval and Mortain but instead fired its rockets at two US 3-inch guns near L ' Abbaye Blanche, killing one man and wounding several others even after the yellow smoke ( which was to identify friendlies ) was put out.

Around the same time, a Hawker Typhoon attacked the Cannon Company of 120th Infantry Regiment, US 30th Division, near Mortain, killing 15 men.

* 9 August 1944, a RAF Hawker Typhoon strafed units of the British Columbia Regiment and the Algonquin Regiment, 4th Canadian Armoured Division, near Quesnay Wood during Operation Totalize, causing several casualties.

* 12 September 1944, a group of RAF Hawker Typhoons destroyed two Sherman tanks of the Governor General's Foot Guards, 4th Canadian Armoured Division in the vicinity of Maldegem, Belgium, killing 3 men and injuring 4.

When Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the United States Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall visited the 1st Airborne Division on 16 April 1942, they were treated to a demonstration involving every available aircraft of No. 38 Wing RAF — 12 Whitleys and nine Hawker Hector biplanes towing General Aircraft Hotspur gliders.

Christine Ann " Chris " Gallus ( born 6 April 1943 ), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives since March 1990, representing the Division of Hawker, South Australia 1990-93 and for Hindmarsh, South Australia 1993-2004.

David Peter Maxwell Hawker AO ( born 1 May 1949 ), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from May 1983 to July 2010, representing the Division of Wannon, Victoria, previously represented by former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.

* Division of Hawker, an Electoral Division in South Australia

Following another re-organisation, the firm became part of the Avro Whitworth Division of Hawker Siddeley Aviation in 1963, and the name Gloster disappeared as Hawker Siddeley rebranded its product line under its own name.

The Division of Hawker was an Australian Electoral Division in South Australia.

In the 1970s, British Airways operated Viscount services on the network, later down-sized to Hawker Siddley 748s from 1982 with the creation of its ' Highlands Division ' connecting Inverness with Glasgow, Stornoway, Orkney and Shetland.

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

It was later divested by Hawker Siddeley Canada and merged with de Havilland Canada ’ s Special Products division to form SPAR Aerospace Ltd. ( Special Products and Applied Research ), developer of the Canadarm remote manipulator system for the Space Shuttle.

Scottish Aviation merged with the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, and Hawker Siddeley Dynamics to form British Aerospace in 1977.

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.

On 29 April 1977, as a result of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act, Hawker Siddeley Aviation and Dynamics were nationalised and merged with British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ) and Scottish Aviation to form British Aerospace.

* April 29 – The British government nationalizes the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics, and Scottish Aviation and merges them to form British Aerospace.

In the late 1960s / early 1970s the Saunders-Roe Folly Works, by then owned by Hawker Siddeley was merged with the Gloster works to form Gloster-Saro utilising both companies ' expertise in aluminium forming to produce fire appliances and tankers in the Gloster factory at Hucclecote, mostly based on Reynolds-Boughton chassis.

In 1935, J. D. Siddeley's interests were purchased for £ 2 million by Tommy Sopwith owner of Hawker Aircraft to form Hawker Siddeley, a famous name in British aircraft production.

In 2000 Tenix sold HdH to Boeing which merged the company with ASTA to form Hawker de Havilland Aerospace within Boeing Australia.

Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft was eventually merged with another Hawker Siddeley company, Gloster Aircraft Company, to form Whitworth Gloster Aircraft in 1961.

Siddeley remained in charge until 1935 when, at the age of 70, he arranged a merger with Hawker Aircraft to form Hawker Siddeley.