45-403: C29 or C-29 may refer to: Vehicles [ edit ] Aircraft British Aerospace C-29 , a military navigation trainer Caspar C 29 , a German floatplane Cierva C.29 , a British autogyro Douglas C-29 Dolphin , an American military amphibious flying boat Fiat C.29 , an Italian racing seaplane Automobiles Sauber C29 ,
90-523: A 3 feet (0.91 m) wide cabin door also allowed the loading of bulky equipment, which was seen as particularly attractive to military operators. However, the internal "up and over" door was replaced on the Series 400 and thereafter by a more usual outward opening door with built-in steps. An emergency overwing exit hatch is located in the passenger cabin midsection over the starboard wing (although some versions have both port and starboard exits). The rear of
135-422: A British Aerospace 125-800 transporting Botswana President Quett Masire was struck by a missile launched by a nearby Angolan Mig-23 , apparently inadvertently. While badly damaged by the direct hit (which resulted in the loss of an engine, decompression of the cabin, and rupture of its fuel tanks) the aircraft was successfully landed by BAe demonstrator pilot Arthur Ricketts. It was later rebuilt. In 2013,
180-588: A Swiss Formula One car Ships HMS C29 , a C-class submarine of the Royal Navy Other uses [ edit ] C29 road (Namibia) Caldwell 29 , a spiral galaxy Middleton Municipal Airport , in Dane County, Wisconsin Vienna Gambit , a chess opening [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as
225-413: A high degree of passenger comfort. In an executive configuration, the flight deck is separated from the main passenger cabin; the single entrance of the aircraft, located directly behind the cockpit and forward of the passenger cabin, forms a vestibule area in which luggage can be stored and meals prepared during flight. An unobstructed cabin floor with 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) of headroom and
270-463: A holding company known as Hawker Siddeley Group Plc after 1980. The group rationalised in the 1980s, focusing on railway engineering and signalling, industrial electronics and instrumentation and signalling equipment. Orenda Aerospace , the only remaining original company from the Avro Canada / Hawker Siddeley Canada era, although greatly diminished in size and scope of operations, became part of
315-512: A letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=C29&oldid=1088571731 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages British Aerospace C-29 The British Aerospace 125
360-567: Is a twinjet mid-size business jet . Originally developed by de Havilland and initially designated as the DH.125 Jet Dragon , it entered production as the Hawker Siddeley HS.125 , which was the designation used until 1977. Later on, more recent variants of the type were marketed as the Hawker 800 . More than 60% of the total sales of the aircraft were to North American customers. It was also used by
405-489: Is equipped with a de-icing system, which uses a mixture of bleed air from the engines, TKS fluid for general airframe, and AC electric windshield heating to prevent ice formation. Weather radar was incorporated into the aircraft's avionics. The Royal Air Force equipped some of their aircraft with equipment to defend against attack by infra-red missiles. The pressurised fuselage was designed to accommodate two pilots and six passengers. Various interiors were offered, with
450-574: The British Royal Family . In the later stages of the War in Afghanistan , various 125s were used to transport military officers and other key personnel in and out of the country. The type was scheduled to be withdrawn from RAF service by 2022, but was withdrawn in 2015. By the early 1990s, British Aerospace, the manufacturer of the type at this point, had two main variants of the aircraft in production;
495-502: The Canadian government , renaming the company A.V. Roe Canada, commonly known as Avro Canada , initially a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawker Siddeley. Avro Canada underwent a major expansion through aircraft development and acquisition of aircraft engine, mining, steel, railway rolling stock, computers, electronics, and other businesses to become, by 1958, Canada's third largest company directly employing over 14,000 people and providing 45% of
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#1732877020510540-740: The Gulfstream IV and Falcon 900 . The Royal Air Force was a significant early operator of the type, receiving 20 aircraft equipped as a navigation trainer and designated Hawker Siddeley Dominie T.1 . The type entered service in 1965, with the surviving aircraft upgraded in 1996 to be more suitable for training crews for modern aircraft, with a new radar fitted. The Dominie served in excess of 45 years before being retired in 2011 due to diminishing requirements. Additional 125s were acquired and operated by No. 32 Squadron RAF as communications and light transport aircraft; these were also occasionally operated to transport Queen Elizabeth II and other members of
585-545: The Magellan Aerospace Corporation . The late 1980s also saw Hawker Siddeley divest itself of much of its other North American heavy manufacturing enterprises. Its Talladega , Alabama -based TreeFarmer heavy equipment business was sold to Franklin Equipment in 1990 and its Canadian rail car production facilities were split between SNC-Lavalin and Bombardier in 1992. In 1992, Hawker Siddeley Group Plc
630-617: The Royal Air Force as a navigation trainer, as the Hawker Siddeley Dominie T1 , and was operated by the United States Air Force as a calibration aircraft, under the designation C-29 . In 1961, de Havilland began work upon a small business jet, then known as the DH.125 Jet Dragon , which was intended to replace the piston engined de Havilland Dove , a successful business aircraft and light transport. Prior to
675-748: The Royal Naval College in Greenwich , London. In 1948, Hawker Siddeley acquired a factory in Kingston upon Thames , Surrey , on the Richmond Road near Ham . This was to become their main aircraft factory and headquarters. In 1957, Hawker Siddeley purchased the Brush group of companies that included Brush Electrical Machines , and Brush Traction , which manufactures electromotive equipment and railway locomotives . The Brush prototype locomotives Falcon , and
720-519: The aero engine business, Armstrong Siddeley was merged with that of the Bristol Aero Engines to form Bristol Siddeley . In the late 1950s, the British government decided that with the decreasing number of aircraft contracts being offered, it was better to merge the existing companies, of which there were about 15 surviving at this point, into several much larger firms. Out of this decision, came
765-418: The "order" that all future contracts being offered had to include agreements to merge companies. In 1959, Folland Aircraft was acquired, followed by de Havilland Aircraft Company and Blackburn Aircraft in 1960. In 1963, the names of the constituent companies were dropped, with products being rebranded as " Hawker Siddeley " or " HS ". In this period, the company developed the first operational, and, by far,
810-930: The FAA modified its rules to prohibit the operation of jets weighing 75,000 pounds (34,000 kg) or less that are not stage 3 noise compliant, specifically mentioning the 125 series of aircraft. This required any aircraft of the type either to have compliant engines installed, or to be fitted with a hush kit , to fly over most of the United States after 31 December 2015. Private operators, air taxi, shared ownership and corporate charter operators worldwide. Between 1965 and 1972 Qantas used two Series 3s for crew training. Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1976–77, General characteristics Performance Maximum Operating Mach number (M MO Related development Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Related lists Hawker Siddeley Hawker Siddeley
855-674: The Orange Line in 1980–81. Hawker Siddeley also manufactured much of the Toronto subway system's older rolling stock , the H5 and H6 models . The heavy rail manufacturing business, based in Mississauga and Thunder Bay , Ontario, are now part of Alstom . MBTA also bought a number of commuter rail coaches from the German firm Messerschmitt , thereby teaming Hawker Siddeley with its old World War II rival under
900-454: The aircraft systems so in the event of a single engine failure, all aircraft systems continue to operate normally. All control surfaces of the aircraft are aerodynamically balanced using set-back hinges and geared tabs. The flaps and airbrakes are operated hydraulically, while the ailerons, elevators, and rudder are manually operated. The design of the control circuits allows for a Collins-built A.P.103 autopilot to be incorporated. The aircraft
945-501: The aircraft's customers have been located in North America; in 1990, out of the 650 aircraft then being operated, more than 400 were being flown in the United States. Reportedly, one aircraft was being sold every seven working days for a substantial period of the type's production life. Successively larger versions were introduced to extend the type's appeal and to better compete against larger jets being used for business travel, such as
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#1732877020510990-468: The cancellation of the Arrow, the company began to unravel. In 1962, A.V. Roe Canada was dissolved and the remaining assets were transferred to the now defunct Hawker Siddeley Canada . In 1948, the company name was changed to Hawker Siddeley Group . The aircraft division became Hawker Siddeley Aviation (HSA) and the guided missile and space technology operations as Hawker Siddeley Dynamics (HSD). In 1959,
1035-411: The engines mounted on the rear fuselage. The Bristol Siddeley Viper turbojet powerplant was selected to power the type. On 13 August 1962, the first of two prototypes conducted its first flight, a second aircraft followed it on 12 December that year. The second prototype was more aerodynamically representative of a production aircraft, and was fitted out with more equipment than the first prototype;
1080-462: The fuselage has a large equipment bay and, on some aircraft, one or two additional fuel tanks for extended operations. Having entered service as one of the first-generation executive jets, the British Aerospace 125 has been operated by a wide variety of customers, ranging from government and military operators to private customers and businesses, it has also seen use by several airlines. Many of
1125-526: The fuselage, wings and tailfin of the aircraft were still being assembled and partially equipped in the Broughton site, now being owned and managed by Airbus UK ; various sub-assemblies were also produced in Airbus UK's Buckley facility. From 1996 onwards, the assembled sections and components were shipped to Wichita, Kansas in the United States, to undergo final assembly. Writing in 1993, Flying Magazine said of
1170-467: The futuristic but over-weight HS4000 'Kestrel' , were produced there. Other railway engineering assets were acquired, including Westinghouse Brake & Signal and the engine builder Mirrlees Blackstone , which came with the Brush businesses. In the early 1970s, Hawker Siddeley's Canada Car and Foundry subsidiary began to build rapid transit vehicles for the North American market. The first order
1215-806: The group. During the Second World War, Hawker Siddeley was one of the United Kingdom's most important aviation concerns, producing numerous designs including the famous Hawker Hurricane fighter plane that, along with the Supermarine Spitfire , was Britain's front-line defence in the Battle of Britain . During this campaign, Hurricanes outnumbered all other British fighters combined in service, and were responsible for shooting down 55 per cent of all enemy aircraft destroyed. In 1945, Hawker Siddeley purchased Victory Aircraft of Malton , Ontario , Canada from
1260-570: The most successful VTOL jet aircraft, the Harrier family . This aircraft remained in production into the 1990s and remains in service. The Hawker Siddeley Nuclear Power Company built and operated the 10 kW JASON reactor in Langley, Berkshire (then in Buckinghamshire). The reactor was in operation there from 1959 to 1962 and generated a total of 1.4 MWh before being shut down and transported to
1305-450: The name changed to BAe 125 . When British Aerospace sold its Business Jets Division to Raytheon in 1993, the then-main variant of the jet became widely referred to as the Hawker 1000 . While the two prototypes were assembled at de Havilland's Hatfield site, final assembly of all production aircraft would take place at the Broughton factory near Chester until the 1990s. By the 2000s,
1350-471: The name is Hawker Siddeley Power Transformers. In 1993, British Aerospace sold its corporate jet product line to the American Raytheon Company . In 2006 the product line was sold to a new company to be known as Hawker Beechcraft , owned by Onex Partners and Goldman Sachs . The Hawker Siddeley name was not used to brand aircraft until 1963. Prior to then, aircraft were produced under
1395-531: The parent company's revenues. During its operation, Avro Canada aircraft (built) included the C102 Jetliner , CF-100 Canuck , CF-105 Arrow and VZ-9- AV Avrocar . Only the CF-100 fighter entered full-scale production. Other design projects (not built) included supersonic transport (SST) passenger aircraft, a mach-2 VTOL fighter, hovercraft, a jet engine-powered tank, and the hypersonic Space Threshold Vehicle. After
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1440-414: The rear fuselage. It features a slightly swept wing , which is based on the larger de Havilland Comet wing planform, and uses large slotted flaps and airbrakes for operating from small airfields; the aircraft can be flown from hardened grass airstrips. The aircraft has a cylindrical fuselage with a one-piece wing mounted on the underside of the fuselage; most of the manufacturing and assembly work on
1485-531: The same organisation. On 29 April 1977, as a result of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 , Hawker Siddeley Aviation and Dynamics were nationalised and merged with British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) and Scottish Aviation to form British Aerospace . However, HSA and HSD accounted for only 25% of the Hawker Siddeley business by this time, and the non-aviation and foreign interests were retained by
1530-402: The smaller 125-800 and larger 125–1000. The 125–1000, which conducted its first flight on 16 June 1990, had several changes to give the type a reported intercontinental range, including the adoption of the newly developed Pratt & Whitney Canada PW300 engine and new digital avionics, such as FADEC . Following Raytheon's purchase of British Aerospace's Business Jet Division during the 1990s,
1575-420: The start of the project, de Havilland had determined that a successful business jet would require several variables to be met, including a range of at least 1,000 miles (1,600 km), the speed and cost factors of a suitable jet engine to outperform turboprop -propelled competitors, and an engineering philosophy that favoured reliability and conventionality. The design team settled on a twin-engine aircraft with
1620-436: The subsequent production-standard aircraft incorporated several changes and improvements from the prototypes, such as a longer fuselage and a greater wingspan. The first production-standard aircraft performed its first flight on 12 February 1963. The first delivery to a customer took place on 10 September 1964. The aircraft went through many designation changes during its service life. Hawker Siddeley had bought de Havilland
1665-471: The two in-production variants were re-designated as the Hawker 800 and Hawker 1000 respectively. The 125 is the only business jet to have been hijacked : in 1967, a chartered 125 carrying the former Congolese Prime Minister Moise Tshombe was diverted to Algeria by armed persons on board. The 125 is also likely to be the only business aircraft to survive being hit by an air-to-air missile : in August 1988,
1710-619: The type "In numerical terms, the 125 series is the most successful British commercial aircraft ever built, and the world's longest in-production business jet". Production of the aircraft came to an abrupt halt in 2013 due to the bankruptcy of owner Hawker Beechcraft , who has suffered during the Great Recession of the late 2000s in which demand for business jets had slumped for a number of years. The type had been in production for more than 50 years when manufacturing stopped, during which time over 1,600 aircraft had been produced. In April 2013,
1755-410: The type certificate and support responsibility for all 125s built was transferred to the reformed Beechcraft Corporation . As of October 2012, Beechcraft does not intend to restart production of its business jet lines; instead the company intends to alternatively sell or dismantle the production facilities for the 125 family. The BAe 125 is a low-winged monoplane , powered by two engines mounted on
1800-652: The wing and fuselage is able to be done with them as separate items with the two being joined late in the production process. The wing has integral fuel tanks which contain most of the fuel. Early models of the aircraft were powered by several versions of the Bristol Siddeley Viper turbojet engine, while later aircraft have adopted more recent turbofan powerplants such as the Garrett TFE731 and Pratt & Whitney Canada PW300 . Both engines drive an electrical generator and hydraulic pump which supply power to
1845-481: The year before the project had started, but the legacy brand and "DH" designation was used throughout development. After the jet achieved full production, the name was changed to "HS.125" except for American exports which retained the DH.125 until it was replaced by BH.125 for Beechcraft-Hawker. When Hawker Siddeley Aircraft merged with the British Aircraft Corporation to form British Aerospace in 1977,
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1890-600: Was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft production . Hawker Siddeley combined the legacies of several British aircraft manufacturers, emerging through a series of mergers and acquisitions as one of only two such major British companies in the 1960s. In 1977, Hawker Siddeley became a founding component of the nationalised British Aerospace (BAe). Hawker Siddeley also operated in other industrial markets, such as locomotive building (through its ownership of Brush Traction ) and diesel engine manufacture (through its ownership of Lister Petter ). The company
1935-600: Was acquired by BTR plc for £1.5bn. This was led by Alan Jackson and Sir Owen Green who were the CEO and Chairman of BTR respectively during this time. Through a series of takeovers, the business units finally became part of Schneider Electric in 2014. In 1973, HS acquired the industrial electronics firm South Wales Switchgear . Later known as Aberdare Holdings, in 1992 this company was renamed Hawker Siddeley Switchgear (HSS). They have an Australian subsidiary, Hawker Siddeley Switchgear Australia . Another company which retains
1980-701: Was for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson line and consisted of 46 PA-3 cars numbers 724–769, which were largely based on the original hexagonal profile PA-1 & PA-2 cars designed and built by the St. Louis Car Company during 1966–67. Hawker Siddeley later sold the same general design to the MBTA in Boston for their Blue and Orange Lines . 70 48' cars were delivered to the Blue Line in 1978–80 and 120 65' cars were delivered to
2025-632: Was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index . Hawker Siddeley Aircraft was formed in 1935 as a result of the purchase by Hawker Aircraft of the companies of J. D. Siddeley , the automotive and engine builder Armstrong Siddeley and the aircraft manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft . At this time, Hawker Siddeley also acquired A.V. Roe & Company (Avro), Gloster Aircraft Company (Gloster) and Air Training Services. The constituent companies continued to produce their own aircraft designs under their own name as well as sharing manufacturing work throughout
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