Airco
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The Aircraft Manufacturing Company Limited (Airco) was an early British aircraft manufacturer. Established during 1912, it grew rapidly during the First World War, referring to itself as the largest aircraft company in the world by 1918.
Key facts
- Company.name
- The Aircraft Manufacturing Company Limited
- Company.fate
- Bankruptcy
- Company.successor
- de Havilland
- Company.foundation
- 1912
- Company.defunct
- 1920
- Company.location
- The Hyde, Hendon,London, England
- Company.industry
- Aviation
- Company.key_people
- Geoffrey de Havilland
- Company.products
- Aircraft
- Company.parent
- From February 1920, Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA)
- Company.subsid
- Aircraft Transport and Travel
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- Airco
- inception
- 1912-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1920-00-00
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8 sectionsContents
- Origins and de Havilland
- Wartime production
- Airline operations and the first daily international flights
- Sale to BSA and liquidation
- List of Airco aircraft
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
The Aircraft Manufacturing Company Limited (Airco) was an early British aircraft manufacturer. Established during 1912, it grew rapidly during the First World War, referring to itself as the largest aircraft company in the world by 1918.
Airco produced many thousands of aircraft for both the British and Allied military air wings throughout the war, including fighters, trainers and bombers. The majority of the company's aircraft were designed in-house by Airco's chief designer Geoffrey de Havilland.