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Gosport Aircraft Company

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IndustryAerospace
Foundedc.1914
Defunct1920
Gosport Aircraft Company
Company typePrivately held company
IndustryAerospace
Foundedc.1914
Defunct1920
FateOut 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]
ProductsFlying 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]

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