Avions Fairey was the Belgian aircraft maker that the British Fairey Aviation Company founded near Charleroi in about 1930 and 1931 to build aircraft for the Belgian Air Force. Its first work was licence production of the Fairey Firefly II and then the Fairey Fox, which became the main aircraft of the Belgian air arm as a fighter, bomber and trainer. Its manager, the designer Ernest Oscar Tips, also created the Tipsy family of light civil aircraft there, including the Tipsy S.2, the Tipsy B, the Junior, the Belfair and the Nipper. After the Second World War the company, based at Gosselies airfield, built Gloster Meteor jet fighters with Fokker, Hawker Hunter fuselages and, from 1962, Lockheed F-104 Starfighters under licence. It was taken over by the Belgian government and became SONACA on 1 June 1976. As a make in this atlas it covers the aircraft the Belgian firm designed and built under its own name.
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Avions Fairey was the Belgian-based subsidiary of the British Fairey Aviation that built aircraft for the Belgian government.
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On 1 June 1976, the SONACA company was created from Avions Fairey.
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Avions Fairey was the Belgian-based subsidiary of the British Fairey Aviation that built aircraft for the Belgian government.
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Avions Fairey was the Belgian-based subsidiary of the British Fairey Aviation that built aircraft for the Belgian government.
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Avions Fairey was the Belgian-based subsidiary of the British Fairey Aviation that built aircraft for the Belgian government.
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Avions Fairey was the Belgian-based subsidiary of the British Fairey Aviation that built aircraft for the Belgian government.
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Both were built in Belgium by Avions Fairey and in the UK under licence.
Tipsy S.2 (Wikipedia)
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It was built in Belgium by Avions Fairey and under licence in the UK by Aero Engines Ltd of Bristol.
Avions Fairey Junior (Wikipedia)
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designed by and named after E.O.Tips of Fairey Aviation's Belgian subsidiary, Avions Fairey
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