Hawker de Havilland
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1927 |
| Seat | Port Melbourne , Victoria |
| Number of employees | 1,300 |
| sales | AU $ 300 million |
| Branch | Aviation industry |
| Website | www.boeing.com.au |
Hawker de Havilland Aerospace Pty. Ltd. until 1965 de Havilland Aircraft Pty. Ltd. Even de Havilland Australia , is part of the aviation industry, initially described by Geoffrey de Havilland was established and today the Boeing subsidiary , Boeing Australia Ltd. heard.
history
de Havilland Australia
In March 1927, the de Havilland Aircraft Company founded the de Havilland Australia (DHA) subsidiary in Melbourne , their first overseas subsidiary. DHA assembled, sold, repaired and offered spare parts for the individual parts from England. In 1930 the company relocated to Mascot Airfield in Sydney .
Before the Second World War, DHA did not produce its own aircraft, although licensed versions of the de Havilland aircraft were built by other manufacturers in Australia. In the late 1930s the production of propellers was started, some of which were sold in Australia and some were delivered to the parent company. Twenty DH.82 Tiger Moths were first built for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1939 . While the wings were being manufactured on site, the fuselages had to be imported. After the outbreak of war, the Tiger Moth was declared the standard training aircraft of the RAAF. As a result, DHA set up a new branch in Bankstown . By February 1945, over a thousand training aircraft had been built. In addition there were 87 De Havilland DH.84 Dragon from 1942 and 212 DH.98 Mosquito from 1943 for the Australian Air Force.
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The first custom design was the small DHA-G1 transport glider, which the Luftwaffe had requested in March 1942. The plane was a high- wing aircraft and had the same bow as the Dragon. The maiden flight of the first of the two prototypes took place in June 1942. As a result, the RAAF ordered the somewhat larger DHA-G2 in 1943, which offered space for seven people. As the danger of a Japanese invasion no longer existed at this point, only six copies were completed.
Production of the Mosquito continued until 1948. At the same time, the draft of the DHA-3 Drover , a light transport aircraft, of which twenty copies had been completed by 1953, was created. In 1949 the delivery of 190 licensed DH.100 and DH.115 Vampires to the RAAF began and continued until 1960. In 1959, DHA took over the distribution of Beechcraft aircraft in Australia.
Hawker de Havilland
In 1960 de Havilland became part of the Hawker Siddeley group. In 1965 the name was changed to Hawker de Havilland (HdH).
With the expiry of the vampire program, the production of complete aircraft temporarily ended. The new tasks included conversion, repair and maintenance jobs, including for the RAAF DHC-4 Caribou damaged in the Vietnam War . In addition, designs for various military aircraft were made, but they were never realized. After all, HdH received the order to manufacture parts for the Aermacchi MB 326 built under license .
In 1970 the cooperation with the manufacturers of large commercial aircraft began. Buyers of aircraft components included Boeing , Airbus and McDonnell Douglas . In 1976, HdH modernized sixteen used US Navy Grumman S-2G trackers that had been sold to the Royal Australian Navy . In 1980 the general aviation activities were merged into the new company Hawker Pacific . In the following year, the Australian Aircraft Consortium, consisting of HdH, Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) and Government Aircraft Factories (GAF), was to develop and produce the A10 / A20 Wamira . After several setbacks, the project was canceled in 1985. Only the prototype was completed at the Bankstown plant.
Before the end of the project, HdH took over the CAC in 1985 and continued it as Hawker de Havilland Victoria (HdHV). At that time, both companies were producing parts for the F / A-18 Hornet , which was built under license by GAF. From 1987 to 1992, HdH took on the final assembly of 67 Pilatus PC-9 licensed buildings. 38 Sikorsky Blackhawk were made between 1988 and 1991 . In 1994, the maintenance of the Caribou aircraft was transferred to a new facility at Brisbane Airport .
After the company was taken off the stock exchange in 1992 and the subsidiary Hawker Pacific was sold in 1998, HdH came into the possession of Boeing in 2000 . By merging with the former GAF, now ASTA , Hawker de Havilland Aerospace was created as part of Boeing Australia . The current production is largely based on the processing of composite materials . Aircraft parts and components are manufactured for the models Airbus A320 , Airbus A330 , Airbus A340 , Airbus A380 , Bombardier Challenger 300 , Boeing 737 , Boeing 747 and Boeing 777 as well as for some military aircraft.