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Avro was a British aircraft manufacturer. [1]

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Aerospace industry in the United Kingdom

The aerospace industry of the United Kingdom is the fourth-largest national aerospace industry in the world and the third largest in Europe, with a global market share of 6.4% in 2016.

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Aerospace 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.

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Airliner

An airliner is a type of aircraft for transporting passengers and air cargo.

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Alexandra Park Aerodrome

Alexandra Park Aerodrome was the second purpose-built aerodrome in the Manchester area in England.

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Alliott Verdon Roe

Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe OBE, Hon. FRAeS, FIAS (26 April 1877 – 4 January 1958) was a pioneer English pilot and aircraft manufacturer, and founder in 1910 of the Avro company.

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Armstrong Siddeley

Armstrong Siddeley was a British engineering group that operated during the first half of the 20th century.

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Armstrong Siddeley Screamer

The Armstrong Siddeley Screamer was a rocket engine intended to power the Avro 720 manned interceptor aircraft (Avro's competitor to the Saunders-Roe SR.53 for a rocket-powered interceptor).

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Avro 500

The Avro Type E, Type 500, and Type 502 made up a family of early British military aircraft, regarded by Alliott Verdon Roe as his firm's first truly successful design.

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Avro 501

The Avro Type H, Type 501, and Type 503 were a family of early British military seaplanes.

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Avro 504

The Avro 504 was a First World War biplane aircraft made by the Avro aircraft company and under licence by others.

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Avro 508

The Avro 508 was a prototype British reconnaissance aircraft of the 1910s.

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Avro 510

The Avro 510 was a two-seat racing seaplane designed by Avro to compete in the 1914 Circuit of Britain Race.

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Avro 511

The Avro 511 was designed as a fast scouting aircraft just before the First World War.

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Avro 519

The Avro 519 was a British bomber aircraft of the First World War, a development of the Avro 510 seaplane.

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Avro 521

The Avro 521 was a British two-seat fighter first flown in late 1915, based on the 504.

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Avro 523 Pike

The Avro 523 Pike (the first Avro aircraft to receive a name) was a British multi-role combat aircraft of the First World War that did not progress past the prototype stage.

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Avro 527

The Avro 527 was the last Avro two-seat fighter derivative of the basic 504 design.

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Avro 528

The Avro 528 was an unsuccessful large span single-engined biplane built to an Admiralty contract in 1916.

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Avro 529

The Avro 529 was a twin-engined biplane long-range bomber of the First World War.

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Avro 530

The Avro 530 was a British two-seat fighter biplane designed in 1916 to compete with the Bristol F.2A.

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Avro 531 Spider

The Avro 531 Spider was a British fighter aircraft built by Avro during the First World War.

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Avro 533 Manchester

The Avro 533 Manchester was a First World War-era twin-engine biplane photo-reconnaissance and bomber aircraft designed and manufactured by Avro.

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Avro 536

The Avro 536 and its follow-on design, the 546 were developments of the 504 military biplane, marketed for civil use in the years following World War I. Principally intended for joyriding, the aircraft had greater wing area and a more powerful engine to lift four passengers, seated in two rows of side-by-side seats behind the pilot.

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Avro 539

The Avro 539 was a British single-seat racing biplane built by Avro for the 1919 Schneider Trophy.

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Avro 547

The Avro 547 was a prototype triplane airliner developed in Britain after the First World War.

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Avro 548

The Avro 548 was a civil trainer aircraft built in Britain after World War I. Its design was based extensively on Avro's 504 military aircraft, but it had an inline engine and a third seat.

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Avro 549 Aldershot

The Avro 549 Aldershot was a British single-engined bomber aircraft built by Avro.

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Avro 552

The Avro 552 was a British light biplane aircraft produced in the early 1920s.

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Avro 557 Ava

The Avro Type 557 Ava was a British twin-engined biplane torpedo bomber of the 1920s.

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Avro 558

The Avro 558 was a British single-engined ultralight biplane built by Avro at Hamble Aerodrome.

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Avro 560

The Avro 560 was a British single-engined ultralight monoplane built by Avro at Hamble Aerodrome.

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Avro 571 Buffalo

The Avro 571 Buffalo was a prototype British carrier-based torpedo bomber biplane, designed and built by Avro in the 1920s.

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Avro 613

The Avro 613 was a 1920s-proposed British design by Avro to meet an Air Ministry requirement for a twin-engined night bomber.

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Avro 618 Ten

The Avro 618 Ten or X was a passenger transport aircraft of the 1930s.

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Avro 626

The Avro 626 is a single-engined British biplane trainer aircraft produced by Avro during the (1918-1939) inter-war period.

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Avro 627 Mailplane

The Avro 627 Mailplane was a British biplane developed in 1931 by Avro from the Avro Antelope bomber as a mail plane for use in Canada.

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Avro 636

The Avro 636 was a single-engined British fighter-trainer built by Avro in the mid-1930s.

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Avro 641 Commodore

The Avro 641 Commodore was a British single-engine five-seat cabin biplane built by Avro in the mid-1930s for private use.

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Avro 642 Eighteen

The Avro 642 Eighteen was a 1930s British monoplane airliner.

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Avro 643 Cadet

The Avro Cadet was a single-engined British biplane trainer designed and built by Avro in the 1930s as a smaller development of the Avro Tutor for civil use.

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Avro 652

The Avro 652 was a 1930s British light airliner, built by A.V. Roe and Company.

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Avro 684

The Avro 684 was a proposed British high altitude heavy bomber of the Second World War, based on Avro's successful Lancaster.

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Avro 707

The Avro 707 (also known as Type 707) is a British experimental aircraft built to test the tailless thick delta wing configuration chosen for the Avro 698 jet bomber, later named the Vulcan.

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Avro 720

The Avro 720 was a in-development British single-seat interceptor of the 1950s.

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Avro 730

The Avro 730 was a planned Mach 3 reconnaissance aircraft and strategic bomber that was being developed by Avro Aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF).

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Avro Andover

The Avro Andover was a 1920s British military transport aircraft built by Avro for the Royal Air Force.

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Avro Anson

The Avro Anson is a British twin-engined, multi-role aircraft built by the aircraft manufacturer Avro.

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Avro Antelope

The Avro 604 Antelope was a British light bomber which was designed and built in the late 1920s to meet a requirement for a light bomber to equip the Royal Air Force, competing against the Hawker Hart and the Fairey Fox II.

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Avro Ashton

The Avro 706 Ashton was a British prototype jet airliner made by Avro during the 1950s.

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Avro Athena

The Avro 701 Athena was a British advanced trainer aircraft built by Avro in the late 1940s.

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Avro Atlantic

The Avro Atlantic (Avro 722) was a proposed civilian airliner version of the British Avro Vulcan medium jet bomber.

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Avro Avenger

The Avro 566 Avenger was a prototype British fighter of the 1920s, designed and built by Avro.

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Avro Avian

The Avro Avian was a series of British light aircraft designed and built by Avro in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Avro Avis

The Avro 562 Avis was a two-seat light biplane designed and built by the A.V.Roe and Company Limited at Hamble for the 1924 Lympne Light Aeroplane Trials.

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Avro Avocet

The Avro Type 584 Avocet was a British single-engined naval fighter prototype, designed and built by Avro.

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Avro Baby

The Avro 534 Baby (originally named the "Popular") was a British single-seat light sporting biplane built shortly after the First World War.

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Avro Bison

The Avro 555 Bison was a British single-engined fleet spotter/reconnaissance aircraft built by Avro.

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Avro Burga

The Burga monoplane was built by Avro for R.F. Burga to test his unique system of lateral control.

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Avro Canada

Avro Canada was a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company.

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Avro Canada C102 Jetliner

The Avro C102 Jetliner was a Canadian prototype medium-range turbojet-powered jet airliner built by Avro Canada in 1949.

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Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck

The Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck (affectionately known as the "Clunk") was a Canadian jet interceptor/fighter serving during the Cold War both in NATO bases in Europe and as part of NORAD.

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Avro Canada CF-103

The Avro Canada CF-103 was a proposed Canadian interceptor, designed by Avro Canada in the early 1950s as a development, and possible replacement of the company's CF-100 Canuck, that was entering service at the time with the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).

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Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow

The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, often known simply as the Avro Arrow, was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada.

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Avro Canada TS-140

The Avro Canada TS-140 was a proposed design by Avro Canada to meet the United States Navy TS-140 Specification in 1956.

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Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar

The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar was a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War.

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Avro Club Cadet

The Avro Club Cadet was a 1930s single-engined British biplane trainer aircraft, designed and built by Avro as a development of the earlier Cadet.

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Avro Lancaster

The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engined Second World War heavy bomber.

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Avro Lancaster PA474

Avro Lancaster PA474 is a four-engined, Second World War era, Avro Lancaster heavy bomber operated by the Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight as a tribute to all members of Bomber Command during the Second World War.

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Avro Lancastrian

The Avro 691 Lancastrian was a Canadian and British passenger and mail transport aircraft of the 1940s and 1950s developed from the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber.

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Avro Lincoln

The Avro Type 694, better known as the Avro Lincoln, was a British four-engined heavy bomber, which first flew on 9 June 1944.

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Avro Manchester

The Avro 679 Manchester was a British twin-engine medium bomber developed and manufactured by the Avro aircraft company in the United Kingdom.

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Avro Shackleton

The Avro Shackleton was a British long-range maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the South African Air Force (SAAF).

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Avro Tudor

The Avro Type 688 Tudor was a British piston-engined airliner based on Avro's four-engine Lincoln bomber, itself a descendant of the famous Lancaster heavy bomber, and was Britain's first pressurised airliner.

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Avro Tutor

A.V. Roe's Type 621 Tutor was a two-seat British radial-engined biplane from the interwar period.

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Avro Type D

The Avro Type D was an aircraft built in 1911 by the pioneer British aircraft designer A.V. Roe.

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Avro Type F

The Avro Type F was an early single seat British aircraft from Avro.

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Avro Type G

The Avro Type G was a two-seat biplane designed by A.V. Roe to participate in the 1912 British Military Aeroplane Competition.

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Avro Vulcan

The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan from July 1963) is a jet-powered tailless delta wing high-altitude strategic bomber, which was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1956 until 1984.

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Avro Vulcan XH558

Avro Vulcan XH558 (military serial XH558, civil aircraft registration G-VLCN) The Spirit Of Great Britain was the last remaining airworthy example of the 134 Avro Vulcan jet powered delta winged strategic nuclear bomber aircraft operated by the Royal Air Force during the Cold War.

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Avro Vulcan XM655

Avro Vulcan XM655 is one of three remaining taxiable Avro Vulcans.

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Avro York

The Avro York was a British transport aircraft developed by Avro during the Second World War.

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BAE Systems

BAE Systems plc is a British multinational defence, security, and aerospace company.

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Berlin Blockade

The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948–12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.

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Blue Steel (missile)

The Avro Blue Steel was a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear armed standoff missile, built to arm the V bomber force.

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Bombardier Aerospace

Bombardier Aerospace (Bombardier Aéronautique) is a division of Bombardier Inc. It is headquartered in Dorval, Quebec, Canada.

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Bomber

A bomber is a combat aircraft designed to attack ground and naval targets by dropping air-to-ground weaponry (such as bombs), firing torpedoes and bullets or deploying air-launched cruise missiles.

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Bristol Aeroplane Company

The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation companies, designing and manufacturing both airframes and aircraft engines.

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British Aerospace

British Aerospace plc (BAe) was a British aircraft, munitions and defence-systems manufacturer.

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British Aerospace 146

The British Aerospace 146 (also BAe 146) is a short-haul airliner and a regional airliner that was manufactured in the United Kingdom by British Aerospace, later part of BAE Systems.

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British Aerospace ATP

The British Aerospace ATP (Advanced Turbo-Prop) is an airliner produced by British Aerospace, introduced in the 1980s as an evolution of the Hawker Siddeley HS 748.

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British Overseas Airways Corporation

British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1940 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd.

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Brownsfield Mill

Brownsfield Mill, Binns Place, Great Ancoats Street, Manchester, England, is an early nineteenth century room and power mill constructed in 1825.

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Chadderton

Chadderton (pop. 34,818) is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England.

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Cierva C.12

The Cierva C.12 was an experimental autogyro built by Cierva Autogiro Company in England in 1929, in association with Avro.

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Cierva C.17

The Cierva C.17 was a British experimental autogyro built by Cierva Autogiro Company in England in 1928, in association with Avro (which designated it their Type 612).

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Cierva C.19

The Cierva C.19 was a 1930s British two-seat autogyro, designed by Spanish engineer Juan de la Cierva.

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Cierva C.30

The Cierva C.30 was an autogyro designed by Juan de la Cierva and built under licence from the Cierva Autogiro Company by A V Roe & Co Ltd (Avro), Lioré-et-Olivier and Focke-Wulf.

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Cierva C.6

The Cierva C.6 was the sixth autogyro designed by engineer Juan de la Cierva, and the first one to travel a "major" distance.

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Cierva C.8

The Cierva C.8 was an experimental autogyro built by Juan de la Cierva in England in 1926 in association with Avro.

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Cierva C.9

The Cierva C.9 was an experimental autogyro built by Cierva in England in 1927, in association with Avro.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.

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Crossley Motors

Crossley Motors was a British motor vehicle manufacturer based in Manchester, England.

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Douglas Aircraft Company

The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer based in Southern California.

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English Electric Canberra

The English Electric Canberra is a British first-generation jet-powered medium bomber that was manufactured during the 1950s.

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.

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Flight International

Flight International (or simply Flight) is a weekly magazine focused on aerospace, published in the United Kingdom.

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Grand Slam (bomb)

The Grand Slam was a earthquake bomb used by RAF Bomber Command against strategic targets during the Second World War.

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Great Ancoats Street

Great Ancoats Street is a street in the inner suburb of Ancoats, Manchester, England.

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Handley Page

Handley Page Limited was founded by Frederick Handley Page (later Sir Frederick) in 1909 as the United Kingdom's first publicly traded aircraft manufacturing company.

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Harper Runabout

The Harper Runabout is a three-wheeled motor vehicle designed by Robert Harper.

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Harry Broadhurst

Air Chief Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst, (28 October 1905 – 29 August 1995), commonly known as Broady, was a senior Royal Air Force commander and flying ace of the Second World War.

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Hawker Hart

The Hawker Hart was a British two-seater biplane light bomber aircraft of the Royal Air Force (RAF).

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Hawker Siddeley

Hawker Siddeley was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft production.

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Hawker Siddeley Andover

The Hawker Siddeley HS 780 Andover is a twin-engined turboprop military transport aircraft produced by Hawker Siddeley for the Royal Air Force developed from the Avro-designed HS 748 airliner.

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Hawker Siddeley HS 748

The Hawker Siddeley HS 748 is a medium-sized turboprop airliner originally designed by the British firm Avro in the late 1950s as a replacement for the aging DC-3s then in widespread service as feederliners.

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Hovercraft

A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is a craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and other surfaces.

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Humphrey Verdon Roe

Humphrey Verdon Roe (18 April 1878 – 27 July 1949) was a British businessman, a philanthropist, aircraft manufacturer and the usually unacknowledged co-founder of Britain's first and most successful birth control clinic along with Marie Stopes, who became his wife.

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Lakes Water Bird

The Lakes Water Bird, sometimes known as the Avro Curtiss-type is remembered as the first consistently successful British seaplane, developed by the Windemere-based Lakes Flying Co, during 1911.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds Bradford Airport

Leeds Bradford Airport is located at Yeadon, in the City of Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England, northwest of Leeds city centre itself, and from Bradford city centre.

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List of Avro Lancaster operators

The following are operators of the Avro Lancaster.

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List of surviving Avro Lancasters

The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engine heavy bomber used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied air forces during World War II.

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Lockheed Corporation

The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company.

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Malton, Mississauga

Malton is a neighbourhood in the northeastern part of the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, located to the northwest of Toronto.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Monarch Airlines

Monarch Airlines, also known simply as Monarch, was a British charter and scheduled airline which later, in 2004, became a low-cost airline The airline's headquarters were at Luton; in addition, it had other bases at Birmingham, Leeds/Bradford, Gatwick and Manchester.

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No. 32 Squadron RAF

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Operation Chastise

Operation Chastise was an attack on German dams carried out on 16–17 May 1943 by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron, later called the Dam Busters, using a purpose-built "bouncing bomb" developed by Barnes Wallis.

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Roe I Biplane

The Roe I Biplane (often later referred to as the Avro Biplane) was the first powered aircraft to be designed, built, and flown in England.

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Roe I Triplane

The Roe I Triplane (often later referred to as the Avro Triplane) was an early aircraft designed and built by A.V. Roe which was the first all-British aircraft to fly.

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Roe II Triplane

The Roe II Triplane, sometimes known as the Mercury, was an early British aircraft and the first product of the Avro company.

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Roe III Triplane

The Roe III Triplane was an early British aircraft.

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Roe IV Triplane

The Roe IV Triplane was an early British aircraft designed by Alliott Verdon Roe and built by A.V. Roe and Company.

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Rolls-Royce Dart

The Rolls-Royce RB.53 Dart is a long-lived British turboprop engine designed, built and manufactured by Rolls-Royce Limited.

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Roy Chadwick

Roy Chadwick, CBE, FRSA, FRAeS (30 April 1893 – 23 August 1947) was an aircraft design engineer for the Avro Company.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Royal Flying Corps

The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the air arm of the British Army before and during the First World War, until it merged with the Royal Naval Air Service on 1 April 1918 to form the Royal Air Force.

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Saunders-Roe

Saunders-Roe Limited, also known as Saro, was a British aero- and marine-engineering company based at Columbine Works, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.

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Saunders-Roe SR.53

The Saunders-Roe SR.53 was a British prototype interceptor aircraft of mixed jet and rocket propulsion developed for the Royal Air Force (RAF) by Saunders-Roe in the early 1950s.

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Stockport

Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester city centre, where the River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey.

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Suspenders

Suspenders (American English, Canadian English) or braces (British English, Australian English) are fabric or leather straps worn over the shoulders to hold up trousers.

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Trafford Park

Trafford Park is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, opposite Salford Quays on the southern side of the Manchester Ship Canal, southwest of Manchester city centre and north of Stretford.

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Trainer aircraft

A trainer is a class of aircraft designed specifically to facilitate flight training of pilots and aircrews.

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Victory Aircraft

Victory Aircraft Limited was a Canadian manufacturing company that, during the Second World War, built mainly British-designed aircraft under licence.

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Villiers Engineering

Villiers Engineering was a manufacturer of motorcycles and cycle parts, and an engineering company based in Villiers Street, Wolverhampton, England.

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Webbing

2 inch (50 mm) Nylon webbing as used in auto racing harnesses Webbing is a strong fabric woven as a flat strip or tube of varying width and fibres, often used in place of rope.

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Woodford Aerodrome

Woodford Aerodrome or Manchester Woodford Aerodrome is a former private airfield and aircraft factory located at Woodford, Greater Manchester.

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Woodford, Greater Manchester

Woodford is a suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England.

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Yorkshire Evening Post

The Yorkshire Evening Post is a daily evening publication (delivered to newsagents every morning) published by Yorkshire Post Newspapers in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro

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