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until 2016. In 2016 ATL moved to their current offices in
Wimborne. ATL provided approved design services under the CAA reference of DAI/9525/96. With the introduction of EASA, ATL moved under the control of EASA and transferred to a Design Organisation Approval (DOA) under Part 21J and now certifies
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engines, which first flew on 9 July 1957, however ATL's design was competing against a large number of designs from well-established aircraft manufacturers with much deeper pockets and could not match the scale of their investments, either in the design and development or in marketing it. Competing
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of 1948–49. Bond Air
Services furthermore contracted Aviation Traders to service these planes. In return, Aviation Traders got half of Bond Air Services' freight charges. Following the end of the Berlin Airlift in 1949, Laker had most of the Halifaxes he had supplied to various independent airlines
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Traders (Engineering) Ltd – (ATEL), ATL's engineering division, was formally established in 1949. Laker put Jack Wiseman, a fully qualified aircraft maintenance engineer with whom he had worked for a brief period at London Aero Motor Services (LASM), in charge of his new engineering
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Bristol Freighters. Between the beginning of 1952 and the end of 1955, ATL built 50 wing sections for Bristol Aircraft. During that period ATL had grown into a large engineering and manufacturing organisation.
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600,000 cash plus a further £200,000, subject to the valuation of stock. The deal became effective in
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1107:Central Aircraft Company
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761:Military Air Solutions
642:Armstrong, P. (2005).
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392:Fly me, I'm Freddie!
363:Fly me, I'm Freddie!
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1057:Blackburn Aircraft
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941:Thales Air Defence
876:Marshall Aerospace
871:Lockheed Martin UK
814:Technical Services
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444:"The Douglas DC-3"
350:Mondey 2000, p.116
259:British Government
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1279:Hordern-Richmond
1229:General Aircraft
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