Airtour Balloon Co Limited was incorporated on 26 September 1983.
By 22 Sep 1996 Airtour Balloon Co was inactive.
Manufacturer
Airtechs Industria Aeronautica
Airtechs Industria Aeronautica LTDA., is a Brazilian company of national capital fully. It was created by Jesus Rodriguez and Carlos Goncalves to design, develop and manufacture the Guara G200 aircraft, for civil and military training. Jesus Rodriguez, a veteran in aviation and pilot and the engineer Carlos Goncalves, who already had experience in designing and manufacturing various models of more than 200 aircraft joined their forces to create the Guara G200 an acrobatic aircraft and training civil and military in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil.
The Airtechs to meet the needs of the agricultural market, has decided to develop more two aircraft: the Guara G300 with capacity of 600 kg of pesticides and the Guará G400, with capacity for 1.000 Kg.
Airtech / Aircraft Technology Industries
Aircraft Technology Industries founded 1980 by IPTN of Indonesia and CASA of Spain. Produces the 44- passenger CN 235 twin-turboprop regional airliner and CN 235 M military freighter variant (plus Persuader and MPA medium-range maritime patrol/surveillance, anti-submarine, anti-surface vessel, over-the-horizon targeting, and search and rescue variants). The C 295 stretched version offers 50 percent more capacity (for typically 69 troops or freight).
Air Systems
1998: Tone Sovoljsak, Letenice 16, SLO-4204 Golnik, Slovenia
Paaglider manufacturer
Airsport s.r.o
Airsport sro is a privately held company Czech aircraft manufacturer based in Zbraslavice. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of microlight aircraft and motorgliders in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft for the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category.
The company had three designs in production as of 2015, all constructed from composite materials. The Airsport Sonet is a light touring aircraft derived from the Airsport Sonata motorglider. The Airsport Song is a single-seat motorglider, with a twin-boom and inverted V-tail layout.
Air Sport
In 1998, Krzyszlof Dudzinski continues to produce his paragliders. 1998: UL. Strazyska 13, PL-34500 Zakopane, Poland
Airspeed
Following the collapse of the British airship programme after the crash of the R101 in France on 5 October 1930, two of the R100 design team based at Howden, near York, established a new company in York to produce light aircraft. They were A. Hessell Tiltman and Nevil Shute Norway and they named the ne company Airspeed Ltd. Tiltman and Norway spent much time seeking capital but with the small capital they had it was decided to build and fly an advanced sailplane to capture as many British gliding records as it could.
A factory was set up in an empty bus garage in Piccadilly, York, and the Tern sailplane was completed by August 1931. It was successful and captured all the available records of height and distance, flown by Carli Magersuppe, and the required capital began to flow into the company.
Airspeed then entered the light aircraft field, moved the factory to Portsmouth.
The Airspeed company was established in February 1931 in York to build the Ferry 3-engined low-performance biplane, designed specifically for short-range pleasure flying (“joy riding”). The prototype Ferry, built to Sir Alan Cobham’s specification, went on tour with his National Aviation Day Displays 1932 and 1933; joined by second example 1932. In 1933 two more Ferries (four only built) acquired by John Sword of Midland and Scottish Air Ferries Ltd.
CEO of the original Airspeed was novelist Neville Shute (real name of Neville Shute Norway), and by the end of 1933 Airspeed had built two Tern sailplanes, four Ferry short-range ten-seat airliners and five Couriers.
Airspeed Ltd moved to Portsmouth in 1934 following an adavantageous agreement for new, free premises in that town’s airport. The company Airspeed Ltd was established in 1934 at Portsmouth, Hants, in association with shipbuilding interests of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson.
In 1940 a transport glider was designed to carry two pilots and 25 troops. This was put into production as the Horsa.
In June 1951, the final merger of Airspeed into de Havilland Enterprise was announced.
Air & Space America
Produced 68 examples of the Model 18-A autogyro at Muncie, Indiana during 1960s, as slightly modified version of Umbaugh light two-seat autogyro (developed 1957-1962).
Airship Club
Arthur Eveleigh-de Moleyns, later the seventh Lord Ventry, had a passion for airships and balloons which endured throughout his long life. Born in Ireland in 1898, Lord Ventry was educated at Langton Matravers and later Wellington College, Berkshire. Having spied his first blimp while still at prep school, he made several railway excursions to Britain’s military airship base at Farnborough, Hampshire. There he managed to talk his way past the sentries to admire the huge craft within.
During World War 1 he fought with the Irish Guards but was wounded; while recovering at Branksome Gate Hospital near Poole, he visited Upton’s naval airship station as often as he could. Later he joined the Royal Air Force, commanding No.902 (County of London) Balloon Squadron. Becoming a certified balloonist, Lord Ventry flew frequently, although as he was nearly seventeen stone, the craft had to be reasonably substantial. Lord Ventry flew balloons at home and abroad, studied airship development assiduously, and helped the Air Ministry test its new blimps.
During World War 2, propelled onward by his absorption, Lord Ventry joined the Balloon Command and Intelligence organisation, organising tethered barrage balloons used to protect targets from German bombers. Post-war, he continued to campaign for the use of airships in submarine-spotting and naval convoy protection, long after most people had lost interest in the idea. But in 1950 he hired a hangar at Hurn Airport and, with a small group of supporters, set out to design and construct an airship of his own. Part of his wartime work had been assessing various types of observation and barrage balloons, and he believed that such a craft could be adapted to become a motorised airship.
Among his colleagues in the venture was retired RAF officer Squadron Leader Thomas York-Moore, who had commanded airship units and flown such craft back in World War 1. Other helpers included engineer Eric Eveleigh-Smith, pilot Alec Leith and one-time airship coxswain Fred Twinn.
Plans were drawn up at Lord Ventry’s Poole home, Lindsay Hall. The little band founded the Airship Club of Great Britain, which they established at Wharncliffe Road, Boscombe. Their premises were formally opened early in 1951 by the Mayor of Bournemouth, Councillor Sydney Thompson. Numerous airship notables lent their support, including former Farnborough superintendent and engineer Major-General Sir John Capper, who had held the first British airship pilot’s licence ever issued. Past head of the Zeppelin company, Dr Hugo Eckener, also joined the club, together with several old airship hands.
Encouragement came from the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Air League of Great Britain. Bournemouth Corporation brought more tangible support, in the form of a substantial grant toward the airship made from the town’s Festival of Britain funding. Lord Ventry also contributed, while the government’s Ministry of Supply lent equipment and tools.
Lord Ventry retained his love of airships until the end of his years. He died in 1987 aged 88, leaving a collection of airship-related written material assembled over nearly a lifetime, much of which is carefully preserved by the Royal Aeronautical Society. Among the papers is a booklet he wrote in 1953 entitled The Small Airship, describing his own craft.
Of Bournemouth herself, it seems nothing remains.
AirScooter Corporation
AirScooter Corporation of Henderson, Nevada, USA, was co-founded by Woody Norris, circa 2007.
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