Hunting aircraft

A Percival Pembroke from the 1950s

Hunting Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer founded in 1933 by Edgar Wickner Percival as Percival Aircraft Co in Gravesend and initially engaged in the production of light trainer aircraft of the Gull series.

In 1936 the company moved to Luton and called himself Percival Aircraft Ltd . In 1944 the company became part of the Hunting Group after Edgar Percival sold his shares. In 1954 the name was again changed to Hunting Percival Aircraft , while the founder Edgar Wickner Percival merged with Edgar Percival Aircraft Ltd. became self-employed again. In 1957 it was finally called Hunting Aircraft .

In 1959, the government forced the company to form the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), which was to be founded with the Bristol Airplane Company , English Electric and Vickers-Armstrong , from which BAE Systems has emerged today. In 1965, the former Percival factories were closed due to the end of the BAC TSR.2 program.

Planes

• Percival Gull
• Percival Mew Gull
• Percival Vega Gull
• Percival Q.6 Petrel
• Percival Proctor
• Percival Merganser
• Percival Prentice
• Percival Prince
• Percival Pembroke
• Percival Provost
• Hunting H.126
• Hunting Percival Jet Provost
• BAC 1-11

Web links

Commons : Hunting Aircraft  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hunting percival | blenheim | edgar percival | 1957 | 1822 | Flight Archive . In: Flight International . Retrieved August 18, 2011.