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The Gloster Aircraft Company was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1917 to 1963. It was founded during the First World War as the Gloucestershire Aircraft Company Limited, taking on the aircraft construction activities of H.H. Martyn and Co. of Cheltenham, and was later renamed because foreigners found Gloucestershire difficult to pronounce. It designed and built fighters for the Royal Air Force, including the Gladiator, the RAF's last biplane fighter, and the Meteor, the RAF's first jet-powered fighter, while its design office worked on the experimental E.28/39, the first British jet aircraft. It later became part of the Hawker Siddeley group, and the Gloster name disappeared in 1963.

Facts
Founded Year
1917 1
Status
Acquired 1
Chronology
Dissolved Year
1963 1
Company Type
Company Type (category)
Limited Company 1
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Manufactures

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Source Gloster A.S.31 Survey (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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The Gloster A.S.31 Survey was a 1920s British photo-survey biplane developed by the Gloster Aircraft Company

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Source Gloster E.1/44 (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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developed and produced by the British aviation firm Gloster Aircraft Company

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Source Wikipedia: Frank WhittleSource page, makertier 2

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Source Gloster F.5/34 (source article)Design and development, first sentence
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The F.5/34 was the first monoplane fighter built by Gloster

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Source Gloster F.9/37 (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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was a British twin-engined design from the Gloster Aircraft Company

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Source Gloster Gamecock (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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The Gloster Gamecock was a biplane fighter designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Gloster.

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Source Gloster Gannet (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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The Gannet was Gloster's intended entry.

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Source Gloster Gauntlet (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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designed and produced by the British aeroplane manufacturer Gloster Aircraft

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Source Gloster Gladiator (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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designed and produced by the British aviation firm Gloster Aircraft Company

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Source Gloster Gnatsnapper (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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for which Gloster was requested to redesign the Gnatsnapper

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Source Gloster Goldfinch (Wikipedia)Development, maker (company)
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In January 1926 the Air Ministry funded Gloster Aircraft to produce an all-metal version of their Gamecock

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Source Gloster Goral (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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the Goral was Gloster's submission

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Source Gloster Gorcock (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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In May 1924 Glosters received an Air Ministry contract for three experimental biplane single-seat fighters.

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Source Gloster Goring (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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Goring was Gloster's submission

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Source Gloster Grebe (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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The Gloster Grebe was developed by the Gloster Aircraft Company from the Gloster Grouse

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Source Gloster Grouse (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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The Gloster Grouse was a British biplane of the 1920s developed by the Gloster Aircraft Company.

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Source Gloster Guan (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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All Folland's Gloster fighters from the Grebe onwards had used a thick upper wing in combination with a fairly thin lower wing and the Guan followed this pattern

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Source Gloster II (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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the British Air Ministry ordered two racing seaplanes from the Gloster Aircraft Company

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Source Gloster III (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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the British Air Ministry placed an order with Gloster for the design and build of two examples of a new racing seaplane

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Source Gloster IV (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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designed and produced by the British aviation manufacturer Gloster Aircraft Company

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Source Gloster Javelin (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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designed and produced by the Gloster Aircraft Company

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Source Gloster Meteor - WikipediaSource page, maker

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Source Gloster Nightjar (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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produced by Gloster after the Nieuport & General company, which designed the Nighthawk, closed down

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Source Gloster Sparrowhawk (Wikipedia)Lead
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The Gloster Sparrowhawk was a single-seat fighter aircraft designed and produced during the early 1920s by the British aircraft manufacturer Gloster.

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Source Gloster TC.33 (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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The Gloster (previously Gloucestershire) Aircraft Co. began aircraft design and manufacture in 1917.

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Source Gloster thin-wing Javelin (Wikipedia)Javelin developments
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Gloster had been exploring this problem for some time and offered an enlarged, thinned and lengthened outer wing section as part of their P.350 model

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Source Gloster TSR.38 (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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Gloster built what was at first known as the FS.36

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Source Gloster VI (Wikipedia)Lead and development, maker
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The Gloster VI was a racing seaplane developed as a contestant for the 1929 Schneider Trophy by the Gloster Aircraft Company.

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1. Wikipedia: Gloster Aircraft Company
  • Infobox: fate
    Merged with Armstrong Whitworth (1961) and Avro (1963)
  • Lead
    The Gloster Aircraft Company was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1917 to 1963.
  • Lead [dissolved-year]
    It later became part of the Hawker Siddeley group and the Gloster name disappeared in 1963.
  • Lead [company-type-category]
    Founded as the Gloucestershire Aircraft Company Limited during the First World War, with the aircraft construction activities of H.H.
  • Subsidiary Of: Hawker Siddeley, Lead [subsidiary-of]
    It later became part of the Hawker Siddeley group and the Gloster name disappeared in 1963.
  • In Group: Aerospace and Defense, Lead section
    The Gloster Aircraft Company was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1917 to 1963.
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