British Aircraft Corporation
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The British Aircraft Corporation was a British aircraft manufacturer formed from the government-pressured merger of English Electric Aviation Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs, the Bristol Aeroplane Company an
A BAC 1-11 passenger airliner
BAC Aérospatiale Concorde G-BOAB in storage at London Heathrow Airport following Concorde's grounding in 2000. This aircraft flew for 22,296 hours between its first flight in 1976 and its grounding.
The prototype BAC TSR-2 at the Warton factory in 1966
SEPECAT Jaguar
BAC One-Eleven
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The BAC One-Eleven is a retired early jet airliner produced by the British Aircraft Corporation. Conceived by Hunting Aircraft as a 30-seat jet before its merger into BAC in 1960, it was launched as a
British Aircraft Corporation
…the name "Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Limited, a member company of the British Aircraft Corporation". The first model to bear the BAC name was the BAC One-Eleven (BAC 1–11), a Hunting Aircraft study, in 1961. Given the numerous government contract cancellations during the 1960s, the BAC 1–11, which had been…
A TAROM One-Eleven in 1995
The selected Rolls-Royce Spey low-bypass turbofan
The first delivery was to British United Airways on 22 January 1965.
Introduced in 1967, the 500 series are stretched by 13.5 ft (4.1 m).