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FateMerged to form British Aircraft Corporation
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HeadquartersLuton, Bedfordshire, England
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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 Company in 1933, the company later moved to Luton, England. It was eventually taken over by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) in 1960.

History

Jet Provost T.1 prototype wearing the titles of Hunting Percival Aircraft in 1955

The company was formed as Percival Aircraft Co. in Gravesend in 1933 by Edgar Percival with Lt. Cdr E.B.W. Leak to produce his own designs. The first aircraft was the Percival Gull - the prototype was built for Percival by the British Aircraft Company and production aircraft by Parnall Aircraft. In total there were 48 built between 1932-38 before manufacturing moved onto future models such as the Percival Vega Gull.

The company moved to Gravesend Airport in Kent, where it could build the Gull itself.[1]

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.[2]

It changed its name to Hunting Percival Aircraft in 1954 and then to Hunting Aircraft in 1957.[3]

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.[4] BAC later became part of British Aerospace, now BAE Systems.

Founder

Edgar Percival was an Australian aircraft designer and pilot who was born in Albury, New South Wales on 23 February 1987.[5]

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.[6][page needed]

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References

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  1. ^ Grey 1972, pp. 64c–65c.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cocroft, Wane (23 September 2010). "Fort Halstead, Dunton Green Sevenoaks, Kent: A brief assessment of the role of Fort Halstead in Britain's early rocket programmes and the atomic bomb project". English Heritage. p. 15. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hunting Percival name change". Flight. 13 December 1957. p. 912. Archived from the original on 20 April 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
  4. ^ Gunson, W.; World Encyclopaedia of Aircraft Manufacturers, 2nd Edition, Sutton (2005).
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McCarthy, John, "Edgar Wikner Percival (1897–1984)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 23 May 2026
  6. ^ Silvester, John. Percival and Hunting Aircraft. Leicester: Midland Counties Publications 1987. Template:ISBN
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hunting Percival". Flight. 3 September 1954. p. 337. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
  • Grey, C.G. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938. London: David & Charles, 1972, Template:ISBN.


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  1. ^ Part of Bombardier Inc.; since 2019 part of Spirit AeroSystems
  2. ^ Government owned from 1966 to liquidation
  3. ^ Purchased rights for various Beagle and Handley-Page designs from the liquidator.
  4. ^ Comprising Hawker Aircraft, Gloster Aircraft Company and Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft.
  5. ^ BAC comprised the aviation interests of the companies that formed it, and wholly owned Hunting Aircraft.
  6. ^ English Electric Aircraft, a subsidiary of the English Electric Company.
  7. ^ GEC purchased EE and with it The Marconi Company and EE's shareholding in BAC, through its subsidiary EE Aircraft.

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