British aircraft manufacturers such as British Aerospace Corporation and Hawker Siddeley have produced some of the most iconic aircraft that have shaped commercial aviation through the years. From ...

Barns, manors, and mills were transformed into bustling assembly halls by the British aircraft industry during WWII, uniting together legendary aircraft builders in one struggle: Supermarine, Hawker, ...

Vertical Aerospace has celebrated “wheels up” for the first time as its electric VX4 prototype conducted its very first airborne test Vertical becomes the first British aerospace company to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Digital images of a Bristol Fighter F.2B, a de Havilland DH-4, and a captured Fokker D.VII in service of the Royal Air Force during World War I as ...

The British were learning to contend with many things in the 1970s, apart from the obvious empire-falling-apart business. One of these things was learning to play nice with its European neighbors when ...

Ball Corp., the Westminster-based manufacturer, completed a $5.6 billion deal to sell its aerospace and technology division to British aerospace company BAE Systems. Ball Aerospace will now operate as ...

Adm. Sir Raymond Lygo, the former chief executive of British Aerospace (now BAE Systems), died March 7. He was 87. The location and cause of death were not available. After retiring in 1978 from a ...

RALEIGH – Marshall Aerospace, a U.K.-based company focusing on military aircraft, will build a $33 million maintenance facility at the Piedmont Triad International Airport and hire more than 240 ...

British aerospace group Rolls-Royce on Thursday posted stronger-than-expected full-year earnings, upgraded its mid-term guidance and declared a £1 billion ($1.27 billion) share buyback. Rolls-Royce, ...

TransDigm is preparing a bid to try to break up Parker-Hannifin's $8.7 billion acquisition of Meggitt. Meggitt, a maker of wheel and brake systems, is of strategic importance to the United Kingdom and ...

For the first time in more than a half-century, aluminum-can giant Ball Corp. (NYSE: BALL) is without an aerospace division. A deal to sell Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. division to British ...