Scottish Aviation Limited was an aircraft manufacturer based at

Prestwick Prestwick ( gd, Preastabhaig) is a town in South Ayrshire on the west coast of Ayrshire in Scotland about southwest of Glasgow. It adjoins the larger town of Ayr to the south on the Firth of Clyde coast, the centre of which is about south, an ...

, Scotland.

History

The company was founded in 1935. Originally a flying school operator, the company took on maintenance work in 1938. During the Second World War, Scottish Aviation was involved in aircraft fitting for the war effort. This included maintenance and conversion of the

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bomber. The factory building of Scottish Aviation, which still exists today, was formerly the Palace of Engineering at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in

Bellahouston Park Bellahouston Park (Scottish Gaelic: ''Pàirc Bhaile Ùisdean'') is a public park in the Bellahouston district on the South Side of Glasgow, Scotland, between the areas of Craigton, Dumbreck, Ibrox and Mosspark covering an area of . The main ...

, Glasgow. The building was dismantled from its Glasgow site and reconstructed. Post-war it built robust military

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utility aircraft such as the

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and larger

Twin Pioneer The Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer was a British STOL transport aircraft built by Scottish Aviation Limited at Prestwick Airport, Scotland, during the 1950s. It was designed for both civil and military operators. It was conceived as a twin-engi ...

. Much later the company built some

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transport and navigational training aircraft following the collapse of

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(which designed the type). It built

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, and

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to form

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in 1977. Much of the former Scottish Aviation assets now belong to

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Aircraft

(first flight in brackets) * Scottish Aviation Pioneer (5 November 1947) *

Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer The Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer was a British STOL transport aircraft built by Scottish Aviation Limited at Prestwick Airport, Scotland, during the 1950s. It was designed for both civil and military operators. It was conceived as a twin-engi ...

(25 June 1955) * Scottish Aviation Bulldog * Scottish Aviation Jetstream

Gallery

Image:scottish.twin.750pix.jpg, Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer Image:JetstreamXX500.JPG, Scottish Aviation Jetstream T1 Image:bulldog g-bhzr arp.jpg, Privately owned Scottish Aviation Bulldog, formerly of the Botswana Air Force and in their colours, at an English rally in 2005.

Cars

Between 1964 and 1966 Scottish Aviation designed a small battery-electric car, the

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, of which twelve pre-production examples were built.

References

Citations

Bibliography

* Jackson, A.J. ''British Civil Aircraft since 1919 (Volume 3)''. London, Putnam, 1974.

External links

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