Gosport Aircraft Company
| Privately held company | |
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Fate | Out of business c. 1919 |
| Founded | c.1914 |
| Defunct | 1920 |
| Headquarters | Gosport, Hampshire, United Kingdom |
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Number of locations
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3 |
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Key people
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Sir Charles Allom Charles Ernest Nicholson Magnus Herman Volk AFRAeS John Cyril Porte Lt.-Col. Ralph Hope-Vere. AFC Francis Percy Beadle |
| Products | Flying boats |
The Gosport Aircraft Company was a short-lived British aircraft manufacturer based at Gosport, Hampshire formed at the start of the First World War by Sir Charles Allom of White, Allom & Company and Charles Ernest Nicholson of Camper and Nicholsons boat-builders. The company built a number of flying-boats for the British government including the hull for the Fairey Atalanta which at the time was the largest flying-boat hull built in the world.
Following the end of the First World War, the company proposed a number of designs published 31 July 1919 in Flight magazine:
In December 1919 a number of larger flying-boats were proposed, designed by John Porte who joined the company in August 1919:
With the death of Porte in October 1919 none of the flying boats proposed were built, and by the middle of 1920 the company had closed.
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