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The company had been a division of Fairey Engineering Limited, but due to expansion, a separate company was formed on 1 April 1965. Most of Fairey Engineering was the nuclear division, which had built nuclear power stations. The industrial division became Fairey Industrial Hydraulics Limited in 1969.
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Fairey Hydraulics was on Cranford Lane in Heston. From September 1990, it moved its London operations to its Somerset site over eighteen months, closing the Middlesex site. Also on the Middlesex site was Fairey Nuclear and Fairey Arlon.
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The Panavia Tornado was the world's first military aircraft with fly-by-wire control, in service, which was developed by Fairey Hydraulics: it made the spoiler, rudder and taileron actuator for the Tornado.
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in 1972. The company was sold by Fairey in January 1998 for £55m. Fairey left aviation at this point, concentrating on electronics and filtration.
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It had worked on the Harrier right from the start in 1967, and would work on it throughout. It built the filtration system of
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system for helicopters in high winds, also known as Talon; the system involves hydraulic actuators.
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By 1965 it had over 4,000 foreign and Commonwealth aircraft fitted with its control systems.
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It was known as Fairey Hydraulics Limited until January 1998, then briefly known as FHL
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sold off the site in May 2017, when it employed around 400 people.
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It was bought by UTC on 21 December 2000, which became
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Aircraft component manufacturers of the United Kingdom
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Index

Claverham (company)
aircraft flight control system
Fairey
Panavia Tornado
Harrier
Westland Aircraft
UTC Aerospace Systems
Concorde
deck lock
UTC Aerospace Systems
British Fluid Power Association
Graviner
Microtecnica
Flight International January 1998
North Somerset Times May 2017
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Fairey Aviation Company
Avions Fairey
Fairey Band
Harry Mortimer
Acid Brass
Fairey Marine
Fireflash
Green Cheese
Malkara
Stooge
Swingfire
Medium Girder Bridge

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