Hunting H.107

The Hunting H.107 was a design study for a small twin-jet airliner drawn up by Hunting Aircraft of Luton in the later 1950s and never built as such. It grew out of a July 1956 paper from British European Airways calling for a second generation of jet airliner to fly alongside its turboprop fleet. Hunting started design studies on a jet-powered replacement for the Vickers Viscount and developed a 30-seat aircraft under the designation Hunting 107. When Hunting was merged into the British Aircraft Corporation in 1960, the new owner judged that the project had merit but that the market for a 30-seat jet airliner was small. The design was reworked as the 59-seat BAC 107 with two Bristol Siddeley BS75 turbofans and then enlarged again in 1961, becoming the BAC One-Eleven, which first flew in 1963.