Saunders-Roe
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Saunders-Roe Limited, also known as Saro, was a British aerospace and marine-engineering company based at Columbine Works, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.
Saunders-Roe Princess G-ALUN displaying at the Farnborough SBAC Show in September 1953
Saro works at East Cowes in September 1954 with stored Princess G-ALUN
Gloster Saro Meteor light foam tender at Brooklands Museum
Red Jet 3 docked at the Columbine, 19 August 2018
Saunders-Roe SR.53
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The Saunders-Roe SR.53 was a British prototype interceptor aircraft of mixed jet and rocket propulsion developed for the Royal Air Force by Saunders-Roe in the early 1950s. As envisaged, the SR.53 wou
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…produced here. Modification work on Short-built flying boats continued at Cowes until 1955. The last fixed-wing aircraft they built was the experimental SR53 mixed-power interceptor. In 1951 Saunders-Roe took over the interests of the Cierva Autogiro Company at Eastleigh including the Skeeter helicopter…
The second SR.53 on display at the September 1957 Farnborough Air Show