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Scottish Aviation is a now defunct aircraft manufacturer from Scotland.

Scottish Aviation was started in 1935, as a flying school operator. Within three years of offering its services it began to also take on aircraft maintenance roles, and it was soon being asked to contribute to the war effort by doing aircraft fittings for military planes. The company even worked on the B-24 bomber.

Following World War II Scottish Aviation was charged with building four different types of planes for the military. The Scottish Aviation Pioneer was the first, and was designed to be a robust short take off and short landing plane, which was used for casualty evacuation and communications. In 1955 Scottish Aviation launched a twin propeller version of the pioneer for light transport. Following the collapse of Beagle Aircraft, Scottish Aviation took over the production of the Bulldog training plane. The company also produced the Jetsream airplane, which was originally designed to be used as a commercial transport plane in the United States.

Scottish Aviation was also responsible for producing the Scottish Aviation Scamp electric automobile. Although, production of the car was ultimately doomed to fail, due to the technological limitations of electrical batteries of the time.

Scottish Aviation was merged into British Aerospace in 1977. The remaining Scottish Aviation assets now belong to Spirit AeroSystems.