Taylorcraft Aeroplanes
Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (England) Ltd, of the Britannia Works, Thurmaston near Leicester.
1938 The Taylorcraft Aeroplanes (England) Limited company was licensed in 1938 to produce Taylorcraft designs in England for the British market. The company began at the Britannia Works, Thurmaston near Leicester, making light observation aircraft designed by the Taylorcraft Aircraft Corporation of America.
WWII: 1604 high-wing Taylorcraft Auster monoplanes were built during World War II for the armed forces of the UK and Canada.
1946 The company name was changed to Auster Aircraft on 7 March, when production shifted to Rearsby aerodrome, also in Leicestershire.
All designs were evolved from the early Taylorcraft with a sprung skid or tailwheel beneath the fin (except for a low-wing aircraft called the "Agricola" designed for crop-spraying; only two of these were completed).
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