Airwork Services

Airwork
IATA ICAO Call sign
AW
Founded1928
Ceased operations1960 (merged with
Hunting-Clan
Air Transport

to form
British United Airways)
HubsBlackbushe Airport
Fleet size12 aircraft
(4 Handley Page Hermes,
2 Vickers Viscount 800 series,
5 Vickers Viking,
1 Airspeed Consul)
[as of April 1958]
DestinationsEast Africa,
Central Africa,
Southern Africa,
West Africa
HeadquartersCentral London
Key peopleM.D. Wyatt,
R. Louden Cumming,
Hon. W.K. Davison,
L.R. Castlemaine,
G.E. Ford,
K.R. Sangster,
L.A. Lafone
A.D. Page
Airwork Ltd Handley Page Hermes IV on a trooping flight at Blackbushe Airport in 1954

Airwork Limited, also referred to during its history as Airwork Services Limited, is a wholly owned subsidiary company of VT Group plc. It has a long and rich history in providing a variety of defence support services to the Royal Air Force (RAF), Fleet Air Arm and overseas air forces, as well as having played an important role in the development of civil aviation – both in the United Kingdom and abroad.