Template:BAE Systems evolution

Timeline of British aerospace companies since 1955

1950s					1960s										1970s										1980s										1990s										2000s
5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4
Short Brothers & Harland Limited																							Short Brothers Limited															Short Brothers plc^[a]
Handley Page
FG Miles							Beagle Aircraft^[b]
Auster
Scottish Aviation^[c]																						British Aerospace (BAe)																						BAE Systems
Blackburn						Hawker Siddeley Aviation Hawker Siddeley Dynamics
Avro
de Havilland
Folland
Hawker Siddeley^[d]
Vickers-Armstrongs						British Aircraft Corporation (BAC)^[e]
English Electric^[f]
Bristol
Hunting
The General Electric Company (GEC)													The Marconi Company																				GEC-Marconi/Marconi Electronic Systems
The English Electric Company^[g]																																												Marconi plc
^ Part of Bombardier Inc.; since 2019 part of Spirit AeroSystems ^ Government owned from 1966 to liquidation ^ Purchased rights for various Beagle and Handley-Page designs from the liquidator. ^ Comprising Hawker Aircraft, Gloster Aircraft Company and Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft. ^ BAC comprised the aviation interests of the companies that formed it, and wholly owned Hunting Aircraft. ^ English Electric Aircraft, a subsidiary of the English Electric Company. ^ GEC purchased EE and with it The Marconi Company and EE's shareholding in BAC, through its subsidiary EE Aircraft.