Fane Aircraft Company

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The Fane Aircraft Company Limited was a British company formed by the aviator Captain Gerard Fane, DSC, and based at Norbury, London, England. [1]

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It was originally formed as Comper Fane Aircraft Limited (sometimes C.F. Aircraft) in August 1939, incorporating the name of his former collaborator and aircraft designer, the late Nicholas Comper. [2] On 6 April 1940 the name was changed to the Fane Aircraft Company Limited. [3]

The company's only aircraft was based on the Comper Scamp. [4] The Scamp had been designed by Nicholas Comper as a two-seater but he had not built it, redesigning it as a single seater, the Comper Fly. Fane took the Scamp design and reworked it as the Fane F.1/40 which first flew in 1941; with no orders from the Air Ministry only one was built. [5]

On 10 August 1944 the company changed its name to Fane Engineering Designs Limited. [6]

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Notes

  1. "Records of the British Aviation Industry in the RAF Museum: A Brief Guide". Royal Air Force Museum London . Retrieved 25 November 2009.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. Smith 2002, p. 151
  3. "Change of Name". Flight . 16 May 1940.
  4. Jackson 1973, p. 333
  5. "Registration G-AGDJ" (PDF). United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  6. "Change of Name". Flight . 7 September 1944.

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