Ruffy, Arnell & Baumann Aviation Co. formed 1915 at Hendon by 2 pilots, Felix Ruffy (Italian) and Edouard Baumann (Swiss), who opened flying school and augmented their fleet by designing…
Large engineering firm at Lincoln which in 1915-18 built 200 BE.2c/e, 350 1½-strutters, 1,575 F.1 Camels and most of 600 Snipes ordered, as well as more than half of 1,500…
Frederick Sage & Co., Peterborough, were high-class woodworkers specializing in shopfitting. From early 1915 made airship parts, adding Short 184 torpedo/bomber seaplanes from June 1915, plus large numbers of BE.2c…
Tandem-wing 3.5-hp monoplane by Percy Salmon built at Farnborough September 1923.
Angus Sanderson & Co., engineering firm at Newcastle upon Tyne, built 250 Sunbeam-engined Bristol Fighters 1918, having previously delivered 200 AW FK.8 and a few FK.10 quadruplanes.
In October 1928 A.V. Roe, together with John Lord and Harry Broadsmith, resigned from A.V. Roe & Co.—lately taken over by Siddeley—receiving £42,500 for their shares. This they invested in…
Around 1890 S.E. 'Slippery Sam' Saunders studied Canadian-Indian canoe of birchbark stitched with sinews. He later patented Consuta construction in which hull is multiple thin plies of mahogany stitched tightly…
SAVAGES LTD Woodworkers and agricultural engineers of Kings Lynn, Norfolk, and Stroud, Glos., who in 1915-18 delivered 50 Voisin LA, 100 Avro 504K, 73 D.H.1 and 100 D.H.6.
Designed light monoplane 1923, 2 built by Handley Page as HP.22 and HP.23 (minor differences).
Scottish Aviation Syndicate formed late 1910 to buy and operate aircraft, including Avis monoplanes designed 1911 by Howard Wright.
Formed at Prestwick 1935 to run new airport, flying school and other services. Built observation aircraft to A.4/45 (August 1947), developed into Prestwick Pioneer STOL transport (June 1950), 59 built,…
Meteor light twin 4-seater (28 July 1930) was roughed out by Sir Henry Segrave (who for this purpose was technical director of Aircraft Development Corporation), actually designed by Saro, tested…
Formed 1952 by J.S. Shapiro to undertake R&D, and in 1960-63 built Cierva Grasshopper and CR Twin, becoming part of Cierva Rotorcraft 1969.
W.S. Shackleton, major aircraft dealer, designed ANEC 1, Beardmore Wee Bee and Shackleton-Lee Murray (often called Shackleton-Murray) SM.1 tandem-seat parasol monoplane (70-hp Hirth) built by Airspeed at York (14 October…
E.S. Shapley produced 2 examples of Kittiwake side-by-side cabin aircraft notable for low gull wing, both built Torquay 1937-8.
'The first manufacturers of aircraft in the world', brothers Eustace, Oswald and (later) Horace Short flew gas balloon 1897 and started making balloons for sale 1902, in 1903 setting up…
Siddeley-Deasy Motor Car Co. Ltd., Parkside, Coventry, produced engines from 1916 and D.H.10, BE.2c/2e, RE.7 and RE.8, and also designed and built Siddeley RT.1 (supposed improved RE.8), SR.2 Siskin (starting…
Simmonds Aircraft Ltd formed September 1928 at Weston, Southampton, to build Spartan 2-seat biplane (95-hp ADC Cirrus), prototype flying with passenger non-stop to Berlin and then back, 49 built. See…
SLINGSBY AVIATION LIMITED Formerly a subsidiary of ML Holdings, Slingsby was sold to Cobham plc in 1997 and is a component of Chelton Group within that holding. Company specialises in…
Solar-Powered Aircraft Developments, SPAD, also known as TO or To from promoter Freddie To, built Solar One (19 December 1978).
Somers Kendall Aircraft Ltd formed by J.N. 'Nat' Somers and W. Magalow to produce SK.1 light jet trainer (8 October 1955) designed by Hugh Kendall.
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