Bristol Type 200

The Bristol Type 200 was a proposal for a short range airliner by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1956, designed in response to a British European Airways specification but larger than the airline needed and closer in size and range to the Boeing 727. BEA had asked for a replacement for its Vickers Viscount and Vanguard turboprops, carrying 100 passengers over 1,000 miles, and the B200 was the only trijet proposal and won the competition. The government asked Bristol to share the work with de Havilland, and the two firms worked together unhappily for about six months. The project was cancelled when BEA selected the Hawker Siddeley Trident, and it never got beyond the drawing board.