Editing Langley, Berkshire (section)

===Langley Airfield===
The [[Hawker Aircraft|Hawker Aircraft Company]] bought Parlaunt Farm at Langley in 1938 and built a major factory and airfield there. Over 9,000 military aircraft were manufactured at the site especially the [[Hawker Hurricane|Hurricane]] during [[World War II]] and also the [[Hawker Tempest|Tempest]] and [[Hawker Sea Fury|Sea Fury]]. The final Hurricane built (a MkIIC serialled PZ865, which still flies today with the [[Battle of Britain Memorial Flight]]) was completed here on 27 July 1944 and named 'Last of The Many' in a special ceremony. Retiring Chief Test Pilot [[George Bulman (pilot)|P W S 'George' Bulman]] made the first flight of this the aeroplane on this occasion – he having made the first flight of the prototype from [[Brooklands]] almost nine years earlier.

The [[Hawker Tornado]] (1940), [[Hawker Typhoon|Typhoon]] (1940), [[Hawker Tempest|Tempest]] (1942), [[Hawker Sea Fury|Fury]] (1944), [[Hawker Sea Fury|Sea Fury]] (1945), and the [[General Aircraft Hamilcar]] X tank-carrying glider (1945) all made their first flights from Langley. Postwar, the aerodrome was also used by [[Airwork Services]], [[British South American Airways]] and [[Airflight]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dunnell |first1=Ben |title=The Tudor's Reign |journal=Aeroplane Monthly |date=September 2022 |volume=50 |issue=593 |page=69}}</ref> for aircraft maintenance work.

The Hawker factory closed in 1958 having also manufactured [[Hawker Hunter]] fighters and earlier jet prototypes. Production and staff were transferred to the flight test airfield at [[Dunsfold Aerodrome]] and the parent Hawker factory in [[Municipal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames|Kingston-on-Thames]] (now [[Kingston upon Thames]]), both in Surrey. Little of the factory or airfield remain today although the area's aviation past is remembered in street-names such as ''Spitfire Close'' and ''Hurricane Way''. A marker stone was unveiled by the [[Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust]] on 5 October 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Langley (Parlaunt Park) (Slough) |url=https://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/langley-parlaunt-park-slough/ |website=Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust |access-date=11 March 2023}}</ref>