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Miles Aircraft Ltd
IndustryAviation
Founded1930s (as Phillips & Powis Aircraft)
Defunct1947
Fateaviation interests taken on by Handley Page
SuccessorF.G.Miles Ltd / Handley Page Reading Ltd / Western Manufacturing Ltd
HeadquartersWoodley, Berkshire, UK
Key people
Fred, Blossom[1] & George Miles[2] Test pilots included Thomas Rose and Ken Waller.
ProductsAircraft, photocopiers, book binding equipment, fasteners (self locking nuts), actuators

Miles was the name used between 1943 and 1947 to market the aircraft of British engineer Frederick George Miles, who, with his wife – aviator and draughtswoman Maxine "Blossom" Miles (née Forbes-Robertson) – and his brother George Herbert Miles, designed numerous light civil and military aircraft and a range of curious prototypes.

  1. ^ https://museumofberkshireaviation.co.uk/html/history/blossom.htm. Archived 13 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ https://museumofberkshireaviation.co.uk/html/history/george.htm. Archived 13 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine

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