Gosport Aircraft Company


The Gosport Aircraft Company was a short-lived British aircraft manufacturer based at Gosport, Hampshire formed at the start of the First World War by Sir Charles Allom of White, Allom & Company and Charles Ernest Nicholson of Camper and Nicholsons boat-builders. The company built a number of flying-boats for the British government including the hull for the Fairey Atalanta which at the time was the largest flying-boat hull built in the world.

Aircraft

Following the end of the First World War, the company proposed a number of designs published 31 July 1919 in Flight magazine:
In December 1919 a number of larger flying-boats were proposed, designed by John Porte who joined the company in August 1919:
With the death of Porte in October 1919 none of the flying boats proposed were built, and by the middle of 1920 the company had closed.