How RAF and Fleet Air Arm orders sustained aircraft firms

Which British aerospace companies were the usual suppliers for the RAF and Royal Navy?

The Fleet Air Arm chiefly sustained Fairey, Supermarine, and Blackburn, while the RAF supported firms such as Vickers, Hawker, and Gloster.

Fairey, Supermarine, and Blackburn depended heavily on Fleet Air Arm work through the 1920s and 1930s. Hawker occasionally crossed into naval orders through navalized descendants of the Hart, including the Osprey. Vickers, Hawker, and Gloster drew more of their support from RAF procurement. The division shows how service requirements and contract allocation shaped which parts of Britain's aerospace industry survived between wars.