BAE Systems Avionics
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{{Infobox company
| name = BAE Systems Avionics Ltd.
| logo =
| fate = Merged with Galileo Avionica
| foundation = 1969 (as division of GEC)
| defunct = 3 May 2005
| location = Basildon, England
| successor = SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems
}}
BAE Systems Avionics was the avionics unit of BAE Systems until 2005, at which time it was transferred to SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems S.p.A. (initially 75% Finmeccanica and 25% BAE Systems, but since March 2007 fully owned by Finmeccanica). Selex S&AS became SELEX Galileo in 2008 and from January 2013 (following a merger with other Finmeccanica companies SELEX Sistemi Integrati and Selex Elsag) traded as Selex ES. It then merged into Leonardo S.p.A.'s land and naval defence electronics division on 1 January 2016.{{cite web|title=Finmeccanica approves merger and spin-off operations for the implementation of the divisionalisation process|url=http://www.leonardocompany.com/en/-/fusione-cessione-divisionalizazzione-merger-spin-off|accessdate=15 June 2016}}
The business had its UK headquarters in Basildon, Essex, England.
History
=Timeline=
- 1804 - William Elliott establishes a company manufacturing scientific and surveying instruments.
- 1853 - Company renamed Elliott Brothers.
- 1897 - Guglielmo Marconi founds his company.
- 1909 - Elliott Brothers and Marconi companies both begin to fit avionics to early aircraft.
- 1946 - Marconi is acquired by English Electric.
- 1967 - English Electric and Elliott Automation merge.
- 1968 - The new English Electric group is acquired by GEC.
- 1969 - GEC renames avionics business Marconi-Elliott Avionics Systems Limited, part of the company's defence arm, GEC-Marconi.
- 1978 - Renamed Marconi Avionics Limited.
- 1984 - Renamed GEC Avionics Limited.
- 1990 - Take-over of Ferranti creating GEC Ferranti
- 1998 - Renamed Marconi Avionics, part of the renamed defence arm, Marconi Electronic Systems (MES).
- 1999 - MES merged with British Aerospace to form BAE Systems. Avionics business becomes BAE Systems Avionics.
- 2005 - Parts of BAE Systems Avionics merged with Galileo Avionica to form SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems.
- 2008 - SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems is re-branded SELEX Galileo.
- 2013 - SELEX Galileo merged with SELEX Sistemi Integrati and Selex Elsag to form Selex ES.
- 2016 - Selex ES activities became part of Leonardo’s land and naval defence electronics division
References
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Sources
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050409090625/http://marconi.com/Home/about_us/Our%20History/Publications%20Archive/GEC%20Publications%20Archive/GEC%20Journals/GEC%20Review/v6n1s/index.html#3 The Changing World of Avionics], G.M. Barling. GEC Review, Vol. 6 1990
- [http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/surveying/maker.cfm?makerid=44 Elliott early history]
Category:Aircraft component manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Category:British companies established in 1969
Category:BAE Systems subsidiaries and divisions
Category:Companies based in Essex
Category:Defence companies of the United Kingdom
Category:Defunct companies of the United Kingdom
Category:Electronics companies of the United Kingdom
Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1969