Heseltine's wish to see a strong European competitor has emerged in the form of the Eurocopter group and Agusta eventually merged with Westland in 2000 and then acquired GKN's stake in 2004.

In 1994, GKN acquired the helicopter manufacturing business of Westland Aircraft.

The merger of Fairey's aviation interests with Westland Aircraft took place in early 1960 shortly after Westland had acquired the Saunders-Roe group and the helicopter division of the Bristol Aeroplane Company.

When Saunders-Roe was acquired by Westland Helicopters production continued via Saunders-Roe Developments Ltd of North Hyde Road, Hayes, Middlesex ( the former Fairey Aviation Head office ).

In 1970, Westland Aircraft acquired the shares of the other parties.

Cicirelli has served all three branches of government in the City of Westland.

Nearly all students that live in the city of Wayne go to Wayne Memorial, along with some residents of the cities of Belleville, Inkster, Romulus, Canton and southern Westland.

Flowers produced in Westland are sold all over the world.

Apart from the Westland Whirlwind and Welkin, built only in modest numbers, the Royal Air Force's wartime heavy fighters were all adapted from earlier bombers.

* June 6 – The Royal Navy destroyer mistakenly shoots down a British Army Air Corps Westland Gazelle helicopter with two Sea Dart surface-to-air missiles near Pleasant Peak on East Falkland Island, killing all four occupants of the helicopter.

Thatcher concluded by saying that as this was a time of business negotiations all answers relating to Westland should be cleared through the Cabinet Office.

Thatcher listed all the ministerial, committee and Cabinet meetings on Westland.

Westland Aircraft and the Fairey Company announced that they had reached agreement for the sale by Fairey to Westland of the issued share capital of Fairey Aviation, which operated all Fairey's UK aviation interests.

In 1964 all the hovercraft businesses under Westland were merged with Vickers-Armstrong to form the British Hovercraft Corporation.

1917 Poems The Fifteen Acres, Check, Westland Row, The Turn of the Road, A Visit from Abroad all from The Adventures of Seumas Beg are included by Edward Marsh in his collection Georgian Poetry.

Dublin Pearse, referred to on all station signage as Pearse Station (, is on Westland Row in the Southside in Dublin, Ireland.

The Westland Petrel is an all dark bird with a yellowish bill and dark legs.

In the 1960s, Wroughton became host to Westland helicopters, but its life as an RAF installation ended by 1972, when the Royal Navy took over-largely because the RN took over responsibility for servicing all military helicopters.

Amongst them were: the Westland Yeovil ; the Westland Witch ; the Westland F. 7 / 30 ; and all of the Westland-Hill Pterodactyl series of experimental flying wing aircraft.

Early training aircraft types included the Lockheed Hudson MK III, the Avro Anson, and the Westland Lysander, all from Britain's Royal Air Force.

Beginning in the 2007-2008 school year, the opening of Westland Hialeah High School in the southern portion of Hialeah, removed the entire portion of southern Hialeah served by the school and located West of Palm Avenue, however, all portions of the boundary located east of Palm Avenue in Hialeah remained served by the school.

Helicopters such as the Lynx and Westland Wasp have been deployed on smaller vessels since 1964, taking over the roles once performed by biplanes such as the Fairey Swordfish.

Conceived as a replacement for the Westland Wapiti and Fairey Gordon it initially called for day and night bombing capabilities, reconnaissance, torpedo and dive-bombing roles.

The Type 194 was in an advanced state of design when the Bristol Helicopter Division was merged, as a result of government influence, with the helicopter interests of other British aircraft manufacturers ( Westland, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ) to form Westland Helicopters in 1960.

This meant the Type 194 was in competition with Westland's and Fairey's large helicopter designs such as the Westland Westminster and the Fairey Rotodyne.

Westland did progress as a private venture a large space-frame cargo helicopter design using a Sikorksy rotor head-the Westland Westminster-but this was dropped later in favour of the government funded Fairey Rotodyne.

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.

Westland inherited the Saro Skeeter helicopter, a development of the Cierva W. 14 Skeeter and the Fairey Rotodyne compound gyroplane design.

Past companies include Fairey Aviation ( later merged with Westland ), and HMV.

Fairey received 2, 000, 000 Westland shares of 5 shillings each and a cash payment of approximately £ 1. 4m.

Fairey's interest in missile production had been kept separate from the Fairey Aviation Co Ltd and its subsequent absorption into the Westland Group in 1960.

O ' Higgins body lay in state in the Mansion House before a state funeral held at St Andrew ’ s Church, Westland Row.

The Montour Railroad was down to just 23 miles of track between Montour Junction and Gilmore Junction when operations ceased in 1984 with the closing of the Westland Coal mine, the Montour ’ s last remaining major customer.

The force at Collishaw's disposal consisted of No. 33, No. 80, and No. 112 Squadrons with Gloster Gladiators, No. 208 Squadron RAF with Westland Lysanders, four Blenheim squadrons ( No. s 30, 55, 113, and 211 ) and No. 216 Squadron RAF with Bombays.

Westland Wapiti s of No. 3 Squadron in the Richmond area, October 1932

The oldest aircraft in the fleet is the Westland Sea King, which performs missions in several versions.

National Steel Car had turned out Avro Anson trainers, Handley Page Hampden bombers, Hawker Hurricane fighters and Westland Lysander army cooperation aircraft.

Westland Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer located in Yeovil in Somerset.

Formed as a separate company by separation from Petters Ltd just before the start of the Second World War, Westland had been building aircraft since 1915.

In 1915 the Westland Aircraft Works was founded as a division of Petters Limited in response to government orders for the construction under licence of initially 12 Short Type 184 seaplanes, followed by 20 Short Type 166 aircraft.

The name " Westland " was chosen by Mrs Petter as new land purchased as part of an expansion in 1913 at West Hendford which had been earmarked for a new foundry, but ended up becoming the centre for aircraft production.

As a result of the experience gained in manufacturing aircraft under licence, Westland began to design and build its own aircraft, starting with the Westland N. 1B in 1917, which was followed in 1918 by the Wagtail and the Weasel.

Following the end of war, Westland produced the Limousine and Woodpigeon light aircraft for the civilian market, but most successful was the Wapiti close support aircraft.

In 1935 Petters split its aircraft manufacturing from its aircraft engine concerns to form Westland Aircraft Limited, based in Yeovil, Somerset.

Westland tendered designs for new aircraft during the war but only the Welkin was accepted.

Westland Aircraft was founded in 1935 when Petters Limited split its aircraft manufacturing from its aircraft engine concerns.

The former Westland site at the now unused airfield in Weston-super-Mare houses The Helicopter Museum featuring a number of examples of Westland aircraft.

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It also used British Westland Wessex aircraft.