In which county are the headquarters of this company located that developed one of the world's first commercial jet airliners built by Alan Samuel Butler?
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Alan Samuel Butler Alan Butler (22 November 1898 —24 May 1987), full name Alan Samuel Butler, was (claimed his obituary in "The Times") the first private aeroplane owner-driver. From 1923 Butler was chairman of De Havilland Aircraft Company —which he financed— until 1950, a year when De Havilland employed 20,000 people and was building Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner.
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De Havilland Comet The de Havilland DH 106 Comet was the world's first commercial jetliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland at its Hatfield Aerodrome, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom headquarters, the Comet 1 prototype first flew on 27 July 1949. It featured an aerodynamically clean design with four de Havilland Ghost turbojet engines buried in the wings, a pressurised fuselage, and large square windows. For the era, it offered a relatively quiet, comfortable passenger cabin and showed signs of being a commercial success at its 1952 debut.
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Samuels Field Samuels Field (IATA: BRY, ICAO: KBRY, FAA LID: BRY) is a public use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) west of the central business district of Bardstown, a city in Nelson County, Kentucky, United States. This airport is included in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, which categorized it as a "general aviation" facility.
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Buckley Aircraft Buckley Aircraft Company was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Wichita, Kansas.
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Airsynergy Airsynergy is a privately owned renewable energy product development and licensing company, which was founded in 2008 by Jim Smyth, Andrew Smyth, Gerard Smyth, Peter Smyth, David Smyth and Adrian Kelly. Airsynergy produces cleantech products which generate an affordable, secure and reliable power supply. The company is based in Granard, county Longford, Ireland, with other offices based in Dublin, Ireland.
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Civil Aeronautics Board The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) was an agency of the federal government of the United States that regulated aviation services, including scheduled passenger airline service, and provided air accident investigation. The agency headquarters were in Washington, D.C.
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Hughes Aircraft Company The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded in 1932 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California as a division of Hughes Tool Company. The company was known for producing, among other products, the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" aircraft, the atmospheric entry probe carried by the "Galileo" spacecraft, and the AIM-4 Falcon guided missile.
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National Airways Corporation National Airways Corporation is a commercial aviation company with its head office on the grounds of Lanseria Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa. The company offers a range of products and services for fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter markets, including aircraft sales, maintenance, parts, value added products, aircraft charter, international operations and pilot training. NAC Operations is the flight operations and charter division. NAC operates a South African network of offices, its main base is Lanseria Airport, with office hubs at Cape Town International Airport, Durban, Grand Central Airport, Wonderboom Airport and Rand Airport. NAC also has businesses further afield in Botswana Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, Gaborone and internationally, Awesome Flight Logistics in Perth, Australia and Specialized Aircraft Services in Wichita, USA.
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Boeing 747 The Boeing 747 is an American wide-body commercial jet airliner and cargo aircraft, often referred to by its original nickname, ""Jumbo Jet"". Its distinctive "hump" upper deck along the forward part of the aircraft makes it among the world's most recognizable aircraft, and it was the first wide-body produced. Manufactured by Boeing's Commercial Airplane unit in the United States, the original version of the 747 was envisioned to have 150 percent greater capacity than the Boeing 707, one of the common large commercial aircraft of the 1960s. First flown commercially in 1970, the 747 held the passenger capacity record for 37 years.
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Precision Propellers Precision Propellers LLC, founded in 1979 by Jeff Johnson, was an American manufacturer of wooden propellers for homebuilt and ultralight aircraft. Once established at Vernal, Utah, the company headquarters was last located in Gold Canyon, Arizona.
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Amerijet International Amerijet International is an American cargo airline headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States. It operates all-jet cargo services to destinations in Central America, South America, Mexico and the Caribbean. Amerijet operates from its primary hub at Miami International Airport.
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Boeing Rotorcraft Systems Boeing Rotorcraft Systems (formerly Boeing Helicopters and before that Boeing Vertol) is the former name of a US aircraft manufacturer, now known as the Mobility Division of Boeing Military Aircraft, a division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security. The headquarters and main rotorcraft factory is in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Production of Apache attack helicopters in Mesa, Arizona, formerly part of Rotorcraft Systems, is now under the Global Strike Division of Boeing Military Aircraft.
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Platt-LePage Aircraft Company The Platt-LePage Aircraft Company was a manufacturer of aircraft for the armed forces of the United States of America. Based in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, the company produced the first helicopter to be officially acquired by the United States Army Air Forces.
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Aero Engineers Australia Aeronautical Engineers Australia (AEA) is an Australian aeronautical engineering consultancy and aircraft technical service provider. It is the largest civil aircraft design organisation in the Asia Pacific region and is now headquartered in Adelaide.
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Spartan Aircraft Company The Spartan Aircraft Company was an American aircraft manufacturing company, headquartered on Sheridan Avenue near the Tulsa Municipal Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Previously known as Mid-Continent Aircraft Company, the company had been reorganized under the Spartan name in 1928 by oil baron William G. Skelly — and operated until 1961, manufacturing aircraft, aircraft components, and recreational vehicle trailers. The company was known for the luxurious Spartan Executive aircraft produced in the late 1930s and early 1940s — made prominent by owners such as Howard Hughes and King Ghazi of Iraq.
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Jet2.com Jet2.com Limited is a British low-cost airline based at Leeds Bradford Airport, England. Jet2.com is the fourth largest scheduled airline in the UK. Its main base and headquarters is at Leeds Bradford International Airport, with further bases at Manchester, Belfast International, Edinburgh, Newcastle, East Midlands, Glasgow, Alicante, Birmingham and London Stansted airports. The company holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats.
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Kaman Aircraft Kaman Aerospace is an American aerospace company, with headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut. It was founded in 1945 by Charles Kaman. During the first ten years the company operated exclusively as a designer and manufacturer of several helicopters that set world records and achieved many aviation firsts.
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BBA Aviation BBA Aviation plc is a British multinational aviation services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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Mooney International Corporation The Mooney International Corporation (formerly Mooney Aviation Company, Inc. and the Mooney Aircraft Company) is a Chinese-owned aircraft manufacturer that was founded in 1929 by Albert Mooney and his brother Arthur. The company is based in Kerrville, Texas, United States, and manufactures single-engined piston-powered general aviation aircraft. Mooney International is owned by the Meijing Group and currently markets the M20V Acclaim Ultra and M20U Ovation Ultra. Deliveries of the M20V Acclaim Ultra began in July 2017.
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Waltham Aircraft Clock Corporation Waltham Aircraft Clock Corporation is a company specializing in the manufacturing and maintenance of mechanical aircraft clocks, established in 1994 in Ozark, Alabama.
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Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft, Inc., is a manufacturer of general aviation aircraft, located at the Vero Beach Municipal Airport in Vero Beach, Florida, United States and owned since 2009 by the Government of Brunei. Along with Beechcraft and Cessna, it was at one time considered one of the "Big Three" in the field of general aviation manufacturing.
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Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC; ) is a state-owned aerospace company of Taiwan (Republic of China) under the Ministry of Economic Affairs based in Taichung, Taiwan. It is known for developing the AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo fighter.