Fane Aircraft Company

The Fane Aircraft Company Limited was a British company formed by the aviator Captain Gerard Fane, DSC, and based at Norbury, London, England.[1]

It was originally formed as Comper Fane Aircraft Limited (sometimes C.F. Aircraft) in August 1939, incorporating the name of his former collaborator and aircraft designer, the late Nicholas Comper.[2] On 6 April 1940 the name was changed to the Fane Aircraft Company Limited.[3]

The company's only aircraft was based on the Comper Scamp.[4] The Scamp had been designed by Nicholas Comper as a two-seater but he had not built it, redesigning it as a single seater, the Comper Fly. Fane took the Scamp design and reworked it as the Fane F.1/40 which first flew in 1941; with no orders from the Air Ministry only one was built.[5]

On 10 August 1944 the company changed its name to Fane Engineering Designs Limited.[6]

Aircraft

Notes
  1. "Records of the British Aviation Industry in the RAF Museum: A Brief Guide". Royal Air Force Museum London. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  2. Smith 2002, p. 151
  3. "Change of Name". Flight. 16 May 1940.
  4. Jackson 1973, p. 333
  5. "Registration G-AGDJ" (PDF). United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  6. "Change of Name". Flight. 7 September 1944.

References
  • Jackson, A.J. (1973). British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 2. London: Putnam. p. 382. ISBN 0-370-10010-7.
  • Smith, Ron (2002). British Built Aircraft Greater London. Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2770-9.
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