Andair
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| Company type | Limited company |
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| Founded | 1995 |
| Founder | Andrew Phillips |
| Headquarters | Havant, Hampshire, UK |
Key people | Owen Phillips (director), Andrew Phillips (secretary) |
| Revenue |  £1.15m GBP (2019) |
Number of employees | 12 |
| Website | www |
Andair Ltd is a British manufacturer of general, sport and civilian aircraft and related machinery based in Havant, Hampshire, England. It is a small family-run company with a dozen of employees and total assets £1.15 million. Founded in 1994 by father and son, pilots and engineers - Andrew Phillips (secretary, born in 1947) and Owen Hugh Phillips (director, born in 1975), the company was incorporated in 1995.[1] The company's business slogan is 'Andair - precision aircraft components'.
Products used in combat drones
Andair is a ISO 9001 manufacturer of fuel pumps and filters, fuel selectors, gascolators, check valves, extensions, oil/air separators, locking fuel caps. It is one of the key players in global fuel systems [2] and blast valves market.[3] The business is based in a modern industrial unit and operates a multitude of up-to-date CNC mills, assembly equipment and test rigs.[4] Their aircraft range is represented by three models - Vans RV6 G-GRIN, Vans RV7 G-RVTT and RV7 G-TERO.[5]
After learning that their products were utilised to create combat drones, Andair announced the discontinuation of all sales to Baykar Makina, a subsidiary of Turkish defence company Baykar. In the press release made on 11 January 2021, the company cited being approached by Armenian Embassy on 2 November 2020 and its own investigation as the reason for this decision.[6] The British manufacturer became the latest company to stop selling equipment to Turkey after its components were found in drones shot down during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.[7]
