Britten-Norman - The UK’s Secret Aviation Success Story
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While the British aviation industry is remembered for its highly innovative but often commercially unsuccessful airliners such as the Vickers VC10 and Hawker Siddeley Trident, for the past 56 years a small firm based out of the Isle of Wight has been creating a series of regional airliners that have seen work all over the world, this company being Britten-Norman.
Despite a turbulent financial record that has seen the company go bankrupt multiple times, the Britten-Norman firm continues to provide the aviation industry with their models to this day, their most famous product being the flexible and efficient BN-2 Islander of 1965.
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