Avro

This article is about the British aircraft manufacturer that existed from 1910 to 1963. For the British aircraft manufacturer in the 1990s, see Avro International Aerospace. For other uses, see Avro (disambiguation).

A.V. Roe and Company
Company typePrivate
Industrymanufacture of air and spacecraft and related machinery
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Founded1910 (1910) in Brownsfield Mill, Manchester, U.K.
Founder
Defunct1963 (1963)
FateMerged with Hawker Siddeley Aircraft
SuccessorHawker Siddeley Aviation
Headquarters
Alexandra Park, Woodford,
Stockport
,
United Kingdom
ParentHawker Siddeley

Avro (an initialism of the founder's name) was a British aircraft manufacturer. Its designs include the Avro 504, used as a trainer in the First World War, the Avro Lancaster, one of the pre-eminent bombers of the Second World War, and the delta wing Avro Vulcan, a stalwart of the Cold War.

Avro was founded in 1910 by Alliott Verdon Roe at the Brownsfield Mill on Great Ancoats Street in Manchester. The company remained based primarily in Lancashire throughout its 53 years of existence, with key development and manufacturing sites in Alexandra Park, Chadderton, Trafford Park, and Woodford, Greater Manchester. The company was merged into Hawker Siddeley Aviation in 1963, although the Avro name has been used for some aircraft since then.