Blackburn Aircraft

Fate: Acquisition and merger
Successor: Hawker Siddeley Group
Founded: 1914
Defunct: 1960
Headquarters: Brough, Yorkshire

Blackburn Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer that concentrated mainly on naval and maritime aircraft during the first part of the 20th century.

History

The origin of Blackburn is with Robert Blackburn who built his first aircraft in 1908.

The Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company was created in 1914, established in a new factory built at Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire in 1916, where Robert's brother Norman Blackburn was later Managing Director. By acquiring the Cirrus-Hermes company in 1937, Blackburn started producing aircraft engines - the Blackburn Cirrus range. The company's name was changed to Blackburn Aircraft Limited in 1939, and the company amalgamated with General Aircraft Limited in 1949 as Blackburn and General Aircraft Limited, reverting to Blackburn Aircraft Limited by 1958.

Aircraft production operations were absorbed into Hawker Siddeley and its engine operations into Bristol Siddeley, as part of the rationalisation of British aircraft manufacturers, and the Blackburn name was dropped completely in 1963.

A United States of America (USA) company, Blackburn Aircraft Corp., was incorporated in Detroit on 20 May 1929 to acquire design and patent rights of the aircraft of Blackburn Airplane & Motor Co., Ltd. in the USA, Owned 90% by Detroit Aircraft Corp. and 10% by Blackburn Airplane & Motor Co., Ltd.. agreements covered such rights in North and South America, excepting Brazil and certain rights in Canada and provided that all special tools and patterns were to be supplied by the UK company at cost.

Aircraft

Picture - Blackburn Beverley photographed in 1964. The type served the RAF as a heavy lift transport between 1955 and 1967. A total of 47 were built

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Blackburn First Monoplane (1909) - single-engine, single-seat high-wing monoplane aircraft
Blackburn Second Monoplane (1911) - single-engine midwing monoplane aircraft
Blackburn Mercury (1911) - single-engine, two-seat midwing monoplane training aircraft
Blackburn Type B (1912) - single-engine, two-seat midwing monoplane training aircraft. A development of the Blackburn Mercury
Blackburn Type D (1912) - single-engine single seat mid-winged monoplane
Blackburn Type E (1912) - single-engine, midwing metal-framed monoplanes, one single seater one twin
Blackburn Type I (1913) - single engine 1/2 seat mid-wing monoplane built both as land- and seaplane
Blackburn Type L (1914) - single engine two seat biplane seaplane
Blackburn C.A.15C (1932) twin-engine ten passenger high wing monoplane/ biplane airliner
Blackburn C.B.2 Nile (1930) - three-engine, two-seat parasol-wing cargo transport, a variant of the Sydney
Blackburn F.1 Turcock (1928) - single-engine fighter aircraft
Blackburn F.2 Lincock (1928) - single-engine, single-seat biplane fighter
Blackburn F.3 (1934) - single-engine single-seat biplane fighter: built, never flew
Blackburn 2F.1 Nautilus (1929) - single-engine two-seat engine biplane fighter
Blackburn R.1 Blackburn (1922) - single-engine, three-seat biplane naval spotter/reconnaissance aircraft
Blackburn R.2 Airedale (1925) - single-engine three-seat high wing monoplane reconnaissance
Blackburn R.B.1 Iris (1926) - three-engine, five-seat biplane flying boat
Blackburn R.B.2 Sydney (1930) - three-engine, four-seat parasol-wing long-range flying boat
Blackburn R.B.3 Perth (1933) - three-engine, five-seat biplane flying boat
Blackburn R.T.1 Kangaroo (1918) - twin-engine, three-seat biplane reconnaissance/torpedo bomber
Blackburn T.1 Swift (1920) - single-engine, single-seat floatplane torpedo bomber
Blackburn T.2 Dart (1921) - single-engine, single-seat biplane torpedo bomber
Blackburn T.3 Velos (1925) - single-engine, two-seat biplane bomber floatplane
Blackburn T.4 Cubaroo (1924) - single-engine, four-seat large biplane torpedo bomber
Blackburn T.5 Ripon (1926) - single-engine, two-seat biplane reconnaissance/torpedo bomber
Blackburn T.7B (1929) - single-engine three-seat biplane bomber/reconnaissance for Japanese Navy
Blackburn T.8 Baffin (1932) - single-engine, two-seat biplane torpedo bomber
Blackburn T.9 Shark (1933) - single-engine, three-seat carrier-based biplane torpedo bomber
Blackburn B-1 Segrave (1930) - two-engine, four-seat low-wing monoplane touring aircraft
Blackburn B-2 (1932) - single-engine, two-seat biplane training aircraft
Blackburn B-3 M.1/30 () (1932) - single-engine, two-seat biplane naval torpedo bomber
Blackburn B-5 Baffin
Blackburn B-6 Shark
Blackburn B-7 (1934) - general-purpose biplane
Blackburn B-9 (H.S.T. 10) (1936) - twin-engine twelve passenger low wing monoplane airliner: built, never flew
Blackburn B-24 Skua (1937) - single-engine, two-seat low-wing monoplane fighter/dive bomber
Blackburn B-25 Roc (1938) - single-engine, two-seat low-wing monoplane fighter/dive bomber with rear turret (built by Boulton Paul Aircraft)
Blackburn B-26 Botha (1938) - two-engine, four-seat high-wing monoplane reconnaissance/torpedo bomber & crew trainer
Blackburn B-20 (1940) - twin-engine, six-seat experimental monoplane retractable-hull flying boat
Blackburn B-37 Firebrand F Mk.I (1942) - single-engine, single-seat propeller naval fighter
Blackburn B-45 Firebrand TF Mk.II (1943) - single-engine, single-seat propeller naval strike fighter
Blackburn B-46 Firebrand TF Mk.IV (1945) - single-engine, single-seat propeller naval strike figher
Blackburn B-48 Firecrest (Y.A.1) (1947) - single-engine, single-seat propeller naval strike fighter
Blackburn B-54 (Y.A.5, Y.A.7, Y.A.8) (1949) - single-piston-engine, two-seat contra-rotating propeller naval anti-submarine aircraft
Blackburn B-88 (Y.B.1) (1950) - single-turboprop-engine, two-seat contra-rotating propeller naval anti-submarine aircraft
Blackburn B-101 Beverley (1950) - four-engine, high-wing, propellers, transport airplane (designed by General Aircraft)
Blackburn B-103 Buccaneer (Y.B.3) (1958) - two-engine, two-seat jet naval strike aircraft to specification NA.39
AD Scout (1915) - Admiralty designed single-engine, single-seat pusher anti-Zeppelin aircraft. Built by Blackburn and by Hewlett & Blondeau
Blackburn Beagle (1928) single-engine two seat two-seat biplane bomber
Blackburn Blackburd (1918) single-engine, single-seat biplane torpedo bomber
Blackburn Bluebird (1924) - single-engine, two-seat biplane training/touring aircraft
Blackburn Bluebird IV (1929) - single-engine, two-seat biplane training/touring aircraft
Blackburn General Purpose (1916) - twin engine three seat seaplane biplane anti-submarine patrol bomber
Blackburn N.1B (1918) - single-engine single seat biplane flying boat escort bomber (started; not finished; never flew)
Blackburn Pellet (1923) - single-engine single-seat biplane Schneider racer
Blackburn Sidecar (1919) single engine two seat mid wing monoplane ultra light: may not have flown
Blackburn Sprat (1926) single-engine two-seat biplane advanced trainer
Blackburn Triplane (1916) - Blackburn designed triplane version of Scout
Blackburn Twin Blackburn (1915) - twin-fuselage, two-engine, two-seat anti-Zeppelin seaplane
Blackburn White Falcon (1916) - single engine two seat mid-wing monoplane
Alula D.H.6 (1921) - single-engine experimental wing conversion of a de Havilland DH.6
Alula Semiquaver (1921) - single-engine experimental wing conversion of the Martinsyde Semiquaver
Handley Page HP.88 (Blackburn Y.B.2) - Experimental aircraft for Handley Page using a Supermarine-built fuselage.

Piston engines

Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier
Blackburn Cirrus Minor
Blackburn Cirrus Major
Blackburn Cirrus Midget

Gas turbine engines (with Turbomeca)

Blackburn-Turbomeca Artouste
Blackburn-Turbomeca Palas
Blackburn-Turbomeca Palouste
Blackburn-Turbomeca A.129

Aerospace industry in the United Kingdom

Blackburn Aircraft Pictures and Blackburn Aircraft for Sale.

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Source: WikiPedia