de Havilland Aircraft Company

British aircraft manufacturer (1920–1963)
Organization aerospace_manufacturer Q283666
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de Havilland Aircraft Company

Summary

de Havilland Aircraft Company is an aerospace manufacturer[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of aerospace_manufacturer entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (968 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • de Havilland Aircraft Company is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's image is recorded as BEA de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4B Berlin.jpg[4].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's instance of is recorded as aerospace manufacturer[5].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's founder is recorded as Geoffrey de Havilland[6].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's owned by is recorded as Hawker Siddeley[7].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's follows is recorded as Airco[8].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's follows is recorded as Airspeed Ltd.[9].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's headquarters location is recorded as Hertfordshire[10].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's headquarters location is recorded as Hatfield[11].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's has organizational division is recorded as 1928 in aviation[12].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 140158000[13].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's GND ID is recorded as 211930-4[14].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's child organization or unit is recorded as Airspeed Ltd.[15].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's Commons category is recorded as De Havilland[16].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's industry is recorded as aircraft industry[17].
  • +1920-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of de Havilland Aircraft Company[18].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company was dissolved in +1964-01-01T00:00:00Z[19].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01962k[20].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's parent organization or unit is recorded as Hawker Siddeley[21].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's military designation is recorded as DH[22].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's topic's main category is recorded as Category:De Havilland[23].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's Commons gallery is recorded as De Havilland Aircraft Company[24].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10647789[25].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's NLA Trove people ID is recorded as 1476980[26].
  • de Havilland Aircraft Company's replaced by is recorded as Hawker Siddeley[27].

Body

Founding

de Havilland Aircraft Company's founder is recorded as Geoffrey de Havilland[6]. +1920-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of it[18].

Identity

Predecessors include Airco[8] and Airspeed Ltd.[9].

Operations

Headquarters locations include Hertfordshire[10], a ceremonial county of England[28], in United Kingdom[29] and Hatfield[11], a town[30], in United Kingdom[31]. de Havilland Aircraft Company's parent organization or unit is recorded as Hawker Siddeley[21]. Its child organization or unit is recorded as Airspeed Ltd.[15].

Industry

de Havilland Aircraft Company's industry is recorded as aircraft industry[17].

Ownership

de Havilland Aircraft Company's owned by is recorded as Hawker Siddeley[7].

Dissolution

de Havilland Aircraft Company was dissolved in +1964-01-01T00:00:00Z[19].

Why It Matters

de Havilland Aircraft Company ranks in the top 4% of aerospace_manufacturer entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (968 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . United States Naval Aviation 1910-2010 Volume II Statistics. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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