Editing Scottish Aviation (section)

==History==
The company was founded in 1935.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RT5AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=alkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4079%2C1402674 |title=Scots firm plans air network. Global Service Based on Prestwick |work=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]]|location=Glasgow |date=27 October 1944 |page=4 |access-date=24 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gpia.co.uk/AirportInfo/history.asp |title= airport history |publisher=Glasgow Prestwick Airport |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331212256/http://www.gpia.co.uk/AirportInfo/history.asp |archive-date=31 March 2009 |date=15 July 2009}}</ref> Originally a flying school operator, the company took on maintenance work in 1938.
During the Second World War, Scottish Aviation was involved in aircraft fitting for the war effort. This included maintenance and conversion of the [[Consolidated Liberator]] bomber.

The factory building of Scottish Aviation, which still exists today, was formerly the Palace of Engineering at the [[Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938|1938 Empire Exhibition]] in [[Bellahouston Park]], Glasgow. The building was dismantled from its Glasgow site and reconstructed.

Post-war it built robust military [[STOL]] utility aircraft such as the [[Scottish Aviation Pioneer|Pioneer]] and larger [[Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer|Twin Pioneer]]. Much later the company built some [[Handley Page Jetstream|Jetstream]] [[turboprop]] transport and navigational training aircraft following the collapse of [[Handley Page]] (which designed the type). It built [[Scottish Aviation Bulldog|Bulldog]] trainers after the demise of their original manufacturer, [[Beagle Aircraft|Beagle Aircraft Limited]].

In November 1958, redundancies affecting almost 800 of their 2,500 staff were announced.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vWhAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XpUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3114%2C2460174 |title=Further Shock at Prestwick |work=The Herald|location=Glasgow |date=21 November 1958 |page=1 |access-date=24 November 2016}}</ref> Scottish Aviation merged with the [[British Aircraft Corporation]], [[Hawker Siddeley Aviation]], and [[Hawker Siddeley Dynamics]] to form [[British Aerospace]] in 1977. Much of the former Scottish Aviation assets now belong to [[Spirit AeroSystems]].