Air Navigation and Engineering Company

Air Navigation and Engineering Company was an early British aviation manufacturer established after the First World War. It was involved primarily in the design and manufacture of light aircraft and was associated with aircraft carrying the ANEC designation. The available information links the company to the development of Britain’s early civil aviation and aircraft-engineering sector, rather than to automobile manufacturing. The founder, headquarters, complete operating period and subsequent disposition of its assets cannot be confirmed from the available material.

Air Navigation and Engineering Company was an early British aircraft manufacturer, generally dated to 1919. It emerged after the First World War, when Britain’s aviation industry was beginning to move beyond military applications toward civil flying, flying clubs and light aircraft. The company’s identifiable activity was the design and manufacture of light aircraft, including aircraft associated with the ANEC name. Because the company operated during an early period of aviation manufacturing and appears to have had a limited lifespan, publicly confirmable information about its organization, production scale, customers and final closure is incomplete. This entry therefore identifies it as an early British aircraft manufacturer and does not infer an automobile business or a modern successor brand.

• 1919

  Company founded

  The Air Navigation and Engineering Company was founded in the United Kingdom and began aircraft design and manufacturing.

Early British manufacturer of light aircraft and aeronautical engineering

• ANEC series

  The ANEC series was the company’s line of light aircraft, reflecting its manufacturing activity in Britain’s post-war civil aviation and flying-club market. The available information is insufficient to confirm the full specifications, production totals or commercial performance of every model.