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Hunting Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer that produced light training aircraft and the initial design that would evolve into the BAC 1-11 jet airliner. Founded as Percival Aircraft Co. in 1933, the company later moved to Luton, UK. It was eventually taken over by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) in 1960.

Hunting Aircraft

Industry	Aerospace
Founded	1933 (as Percival Aircraft Co.)
Defunct	1960
Fate	Merged to form British Aircraft Corporation
Headquarters	Luton, Bedfordshire, UK

History

The company was formed as Percival Aircraft Co. in Gravesend in 1933 by Edgar Percival to produce his own designs. Restructured in 1936, it became Percival Aircraft Ltd, and moved to Luton Airport.

The company became part of the Hunting Group in 1944. Percival, who had resigned from the board to serve in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the war sold his remaining interest in the company at that point.

From 1947 some internal components of Britain's Blue Danube atomic bomb were designed and manufactured by Percival Aircraft, in collaboration with the High Explosive Research project at Fort Halstead, Kent.[1]

It changed its name to Hunting Percival Aircraft in 1954 and then to Hunting Aircraft in 1957.[2]

In 1960 the company was taken over by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), itself formed earlier that same year through the merger of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, English Electric and Vickers-Armstrongs.[3] BAC later became part of British Aerospace, now BAE Systems.

Aircraft

Percival Aircraft

The first Percival type to be allocated a "P" number was the P.40 Prentice. Previous designs (including unflown designs) were unofficially allocated such a number by the Percival Sales Manager in 1944 when Percival was acquired by the Hunting Group. However, this was "purely a cosmetic exercise" and such numbers have no actual basis in history.[4]

• Percival Gull
• Percival Vega Gull
• Percival Mew Gull
• Percival Q.6 Petrel
• Percival Proctor
• Percival P.40 Prentice
• Percival P.48 Merganser
• Percival P.50 Prince
• Percival P.54 Survey Prince
• Percival P.56 Provost
• Percival P.66 Pembroke
• Percival P.66 President
• Percival P.74 8-seat experimental gas turbine/tipjet powered helicopter
• P.87 fixed wing DC-3 replacement, not built[5]

Hunting Aircraft

• Hunting H.126 – an experimental STOL jet aircraft
• Hunting Percival P.84 Jet Provost
• Hunting H.107 – an airliner project started by Hunting, and evolved after the BAC take-over as the BAC 1-11)

See also

• Aerospace industry in the United Kingdom
• List of aircraft manufacturers

References

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[de] Hunting Aircraft

Hunting Aircraft war ein britischer Flugzeughersteller, der 1933 von Edgar Wickner Percival als Percival Aircraft Co in Gravesend gegründet wurde und sich zunächst mit der Herstellung von leichten Schulflugzeugen der Gull-Serie beschäftigte.

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- [en] Hunting Aircraft

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[fr] Hunting Aircraft

Hunting Aircraft était un constructeur aéronautique britannique produisant des avions d'entraînement légers. L'entreprise ébaucha également les plans de ce qui deviendra le BAC 1-11, avion de ligne biréacteur britannique qui connut le succès à partir du milieu des années 1960. Fondée en 1933 sous le nom de Percival Aircraft Co., l'entreprise se déplaça ensuite à Luton, Bedfordshire. En 1960, elle fusionna avec d'autres entreprises aéronautiques britanniques pour constituer la British Aircraft Corporation (BAC).

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