Thruster Air Services was a British
aircraft manufacturer
An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology indust ...
based in
Langworth
Langworth is a small village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated north-east from the city and county town of Lincoln, and on the A158 road Lincoln to Skegness road. It is in the civil parish of Barlings.
Commu ...
,
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-we ...
. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of
ultralight aircraft in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category.
[Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeier; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2011-12'', page 81. WDLA UK, Lancaster UK, 2011. ][Tacke, Willi; Marino Boric; et al: ''World Directory of Light Aviation 2015-16'', page 84. Flying Pages Europe SARL, 2015. ]
History
The company was formed in Camelford, Cornwall, in the mid-1980s to produce the
Thruster TST and the
Thruster T300. By the mid-1990s the company was producing the
T600 and it continued to be developed over time. In the winter of 2006 the company was sold to Stephen Turley and Gerald Cooper and in the summer of 2007 was moved to
Wickenby Aerodrome in Lincolnshire.
As of July 2021 the company is listed as "dormant", the company website domain is for sale and no information is readily available for the status of this company.
Aircraft
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{{Thruster Air Services aircraft
Aircraft manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Lincolnshire
Homebuilt aircraft
Ultralight aircraft
West Lindsey District