| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | c.1914 |
| Defunct | 1920 |
| Fate | Out of business c. 1919 |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 3 |
Key people | Sir Charles Allom Charles Ernest Nicholson Magnus Herman Volk AFRAeS John Cyril Porte Lt.-Col. Ralph Hope-Vere. AFC[1][2] Francis Percy Beadle[3] |
| Products | Flying boats |
The Gosport Aircraft Company was a short-lived British aircraft manufacturer based at Gosport, Hampshire formed at the start of the First World War by Sir Charles Allom of White, Allom & Company and Charles Ernest Nicholson of Camper and Nicholsons boat-builders. The company built a number of flying-boats for the British government including the hull for the Fairey Atalanta which at the time was the largest flying-boat hull built in the world.[4][5]
- ^ Gosport Aircraft and Engineering Company (7 July 1920). "1920: Gosport Aircraft Co". Aviation Ancestry. The Aeroplane. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ^ "Awarded the Air Force Cross". Supplement to the London Gazette: 97. 1 January 1919. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ^ Moss, Roger. "Francis Percy Hyde Beadle". British Aviation - Projects to Production. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ^ "The Largest Flying-Boat Hull in the World". Flight. 10 April 1919. p. 481.
- ^ Dear, Ian (19 December 2001). Camper and Nicholson: 200 Years of Yacht Building. Quiller Press. pp. 69–74. ISBN 978-1899163649.