Marshall of Cambridge

Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group is an aircraft maintenance, modification and design company located at Cambridge Airport, which it also owns and operates. The company covers all aspects of design, manufacture, maintenance, modification, conversion and logistic support of military, commercial and business aircraft. It employs over 4,400 people and is based on an 800-acre (3.2 km²) site with 1,200,000 square feet (110,000 m²) of covered hangar space. It works on a large variety of aircraft types and projects.

Formerly known as Marshall's of Cambridge, the Marshall companies have been involved in aerospace and specialist vehicle engineering since the early 20th Century. Marshall Aerospace is one part of the Marshall Group. Founded in 1909, the Marshall Group now (2012 figures) has an annual turnover in excess of £1 billion and nearly 4,500 employees.

With its headquarters on an 800-acre site in Cambridge, UK, the group operates worldwide in the fields of aerospace, military land systems and fleet management; together with a network of 67 franchised automotive dealerships in the UK.

Marshall Aerospace has been involved with all levels of aircraft maintenance, modification and conversion for more than seventy years. The company has the authorisation and experience to work on a range of aircraft from Cessna Citations to Boeing 747s in civil use, and from the C-130 Hercules to the Lockheed L-1011 Tristar for the military. Marshall Aerospace carries out maintenance from routine daily maintenance to a full aircraft depot level checks.

All forms of conversions, re-configurations, modifications and repairs can be designed and implemented by Marshall Aerospace. The company’s commercial aircraft hangar can house a range of different aircraft, for example a Boeing 747-400, an MD-11 and two A320s. Marshall also has other hangar space that can hold up 12 C-130 Hercules aircraft.

Marshall Aerospace has been the UK Designated Company for the Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules since 1966 and Sister Design Authority since 1988. The company oversaw the introduction of 25 second generation C-130Js and the retirement of half of the RAF's first generation aircraft. The company was the design authority for the RAF fleet of Tristar tanker and freighter aircraft, and remains the appointed sister design authority for the RAF Boeing E-3D Sentry. Major maintenance and modification activity is undertaken on all these types, plus a complete range of other military and commercial aircraft.