Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, formally the Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Company, was a British aircraft maker that began in 1912 as the Aerial Department of the Armstrong Whitworth engineering group in Newcastle upon Tyne. Between about 1914 and 1917 the Dutch designer Frederick Koolhoven gave its early aircraft their F.K. designations. The company became a separate business in 1920 and, after the 1927 Vickers merger left it outside Vickers-Armstrongs, was owned by J. D. Siddeley until Hawker Aircraft bought it in 1935 and the group became Hawker Siddeley. Its best known aircraft were the Siskin fighter, the Atlas army co-operation biplane and the Whitley bomber, and it also built Avro Lancasters and Lincolns and several jet fighters under licence at Baginton and Bitteswell. In 1961 it merged with Gloster to form Whitworth Gloster Aircraft, and its last own design, the Argosy, became the Hawker Siddeley Argosy in 1963.
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Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft was established as the Aerial Department of the Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Company engineering group in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1912
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the company was eventually merged with another Hawker Siddeley company, Gloster Aircraft Company, to form Whitworth Gloster Aircraft in 1961
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was a British aircraft manufacturer
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Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft was purchased by Hawker Aircraft, the new group becoming Hawker Siddeley Aircraft
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developed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft
Armstrong Whitworth Atlas (Wikipedia)
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designed and built by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft
Armstrong Whitworth Apollo (Wikipedia)
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built by Armstrong Whitworth at Baginton
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley (Wikipedia)
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John Lloyd, the Chief Designer of Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.27 Ensign (Wikipedia)
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Armstrong Whitworth designed the Ensign to seat up to 40 passengers
Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 (Wikipedia)
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built by Armstrong Whitworth during the First World War
Armstrong Whitworth Wolf (Wikipedia)
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Armstrong Whitworth also built two for the RAF Reserve Flying School at Whitley
Armstrong Whitworth Ara (Wikipedia)
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was an unsuccessful British single-seat biplane fighter aircraft of the First World War built by Armstrong Whitworth
Armstrong Whitworth Armadillo (Wikipedia)
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was a British single-seat biplane fighter aircraft built by Armstrong Whitworth
Armstrong Whitworth F.K.10 (Wikipedia)
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was a British two-seat quadruplane (i.e., four wing) fighter aircraft built by Armstrong Whitworth during the First World War
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.16 (Wikipedia)
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was a single-engine biplane fighter aircraft designed and built by the British aircraft manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft
Armstrong Whitworth Scimitar (Wikipedia)
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was a British single-engine biplane fighter aircraft designed and built by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft
Armstrong Whitworth Starling (Wikipedia)
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The A.W.14 Starling was developed by Armstrong Whitworth as the sole contender for Specification 28/24
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.23 (Wikipedia)
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was a prototype bomber/transport aircraft produced to specification C.26/31 for the British Air Ministry by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.19 (Wikipedia)
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The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.19 was one of the latter group.
Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle (Wikipedia)
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The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.41 Albemarle was a twin-engine transport aircraft developed by the British aircraft manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth
Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta (Wikipedia)
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The Armstrong Whitworth AW.15 Atalanta was a four-engine airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Limited at Coventry.
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.29 (Wikipedia)
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The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.29 was a British bomber aircraft built by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft.
Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 (Wikipedia)
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The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52 was an early flying wing aircraft designed and produced by British aircraft manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft.
Armstrong Whitworth Ape (Wikipedia)
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The Ape was a British biplane experimental aeroplane built by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft in the early 1920s
Armstrong Whitworth Argosy (Wikipedia)
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The Armstrong Whitworth Argosy was a three-engine biplane airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft.
Armstrong Whitworth Awana (Wikipedia)
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The Armstrong Whitworth Awana was a British prototype troop-transport aircraft built to meet a 1920 Air Ministry requirement.
Armstrong Whitworth F.K.3 (Wikipedia)
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The Armstrong Whitworth F.K.3 was a British two-seat general-purpose biplane built by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft during the First World War.
Armstrong Whitworth F.K.6 (Wikipedia)
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The Armstrong Whitworth F.K.5 and F.K.6 were experimental triplanes built as escort fighters by Armstrong Whitworth during the First World War.
Armstrong Whitworth Sissit (Wikipedia)
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The Armstrong Whitworth Sissit, also known as the Armstrong Whitworth F.K.1, was a prototype single-engined biplane fighter aircraft of the First World War.
Armstrong Whitworth AW.171 (Wikipedia)
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The Armstrong Whitworth AW.171 was a British project of the 1950s to develop a supersonic VTOL flying wing aircraft.
Seaslug (missile) (Wikipedia)
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Seaslug was a first-generation surface-to-air missile developed by Armstrong Whitworth (later part of the Hawker Siddeley group) for use by the Royal Navy.
R23X-class airship (Wikipedia)
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R.29 was constructed by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft at Barlow, North Yorkshire
Siddeley-Deasy Sinaia (Wikipedia)
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also known as the Armstrong Whitworth Sinaia
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