British Aviation - Projects to Production

Data

All data has been grouped together alphabetically by company. The term "company" is used for convenience, but actually refers to the "family" name by which a design or product is commonly know. For the larger companies, this term is not a misnomer, as typically they would both create and produce the design. Smaller companies may design their own product whilst contracting out the manufacturing, or visa versa. For homebuilt aircraft and alot of on-offs, the situation is even less clear, when the type may be known by a name related to neither designer nor manufacturer. The author has used in all cases the most commonly used name and classified this under "company". Where company names have changed or products transferred to another company, data is listed only under one heading with suitable cross referencing.

For each company, all projects are listed approximately chronologically. For those that have project or type number designations, this is used to order the list, with unnumbered entries added at their approximate chronological location.

Each data entry is laid out as shown below.

Project Data :

Project No : Some companies used a Project Number as well as a Type Number to identify the study phase.

Type No : The main identifying alpha/numeric sequence used by each company to identify its products.

Name : Unknown represents no record for this project or type number found.

Not Identified represents a project with no known type no, name etc..

Alternative Name(s) : Italics represents an early name considered but not used. Names in parentheses represent colloquial

or nicknames.

Year : For projects that achieved flying status, the year represents that of first flight; otherwise it represents

the approximate begining of design studies.

Status Code : Proj Project Only; Pro(n) Prototype Only (Not Flown)

Proto Prototype Only; Prdn Production

Qty : Numbers in parentheses represent conversions.

Description : xS = number of seats; xE number of engines, followed by a brief description.

References : References are normally only given to sources that contain a significant amount of information

(at least an illustration and / or physical data).

Where very little data has been found for an entry, the reference source used by the

author to indicate its existence is given in parentheses.

Production Data :

Type No : As above.

Name : As above

Serial Range/ : The serial range (military) or registration for each batch associated with the contract.

Registration

C/n : The constructors number as allocated by the manufacture.

Batch Qty : The number of aircraft per batch within the contract.

Conv : The number of aircraft converted to another model (as shown in the notes) or the number of aircraft

converted to the given Type.

Canc'd : The number of aircraft cancelled from within a given batch.

The author recognises that terms such as "registration", "serial number", "tail number" etc. have produced many a heated

debate. For simple consistency, this site will use the term "registration" when referring to civil aircraft and "serial number"

for military. Likewise, manufacturers have used a variety of terms for their own allocated numbers but again for consistency

the term C/n (Constructors number) will be used throughout. When the companys actual terminology is known, this will be

added as a footnote.