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90 Table 2: Civil Fixed-wing Aircraft over 9,000kg (20,0001b), 1970 (Figures in brackets are 1965) FLIGHT International, 20 January 1972 UK Belg Den France Ger Irel'd Italy Lux Nether Norway EEC(6) Jets 4 engines 3 engines 2 engines Propellers 4 engines 2 engines 77 (64) 39 (19) 78 (16) 134 (179) 61 (139) 12 (7) 5 — 11 (10) 7 (15) 16 (31) 5 (2) — — 8 (5) 18 (22) 36 (6) 43 (32) 24 (16) 12 — 27 (13) 75 (49) 59 (1) 71 (80) 85 (66) 13 (24) 7 (23) 8 (2) 12 (4) 14 (15) 1 (7) 21 (14) 68 (20) 15 (30) 25 (12) 1 — 30 (16) 5 (2) 131 (85) — — — — 44 (13) 30 — 20 (5) 243 (80) 1 (27) 14 (18) 8 (10) 17 (19) 108 (176) 150 (150) Totals 389 (417) 51 (63) 67 (35) 286 (227) 130 (77) 35 (28) 129 (76) 5 — 75 (61) 50 (36) 676 (504) Source: tcao Table 3: Civil Fixed-wing Aircraft under 9,000kg (20,0001b), 1970 (Figures in brackets are 1965) UK Belg Den France Ger Irel'd Italy Lux Nether Norway EEC(6) Jets 2 — Propellers Single 1,547 (1,065) 446 (226) N/A (216) Multi 408 (230) 45 (30) 50 (35) 11 (4) 7 (4) 4,369 (3,963) 2,794 (1,653) 287 (204) 216 (192) 70 (31) 6 (3) 5 (5) 954 (974) 107 (56) 10 (8) 33 (21) 21 (13) - (6) 229 (173) 366 (198) 8,813 (7,002) 19 (26) 42 (10) 674 (514) Totals 1,955(1,295) 491(256) N/A (251) 4,667(4,171) 3,017(1,849) 76(34) 1,066(1,035) 21(19) 258(207) 408(208) 9,520(7,537) EEC AND BRITISH AEROSPACE Table 4: Civil Helicopters 1970 (figures in brackets are 1965) UK 136 (81) Belg 4 (5) Den 8 (7) France 93 (72) Ger 100 (70) Irel'd 7 (3) Italy 70 (40) Lux Nether 8 (9) Norway 27 (12) country. For good measure we have included the fleets of the other three EEC applicant countries, Denmark, Norway and Ireland. It should be noted that the Danish and Norwegian fleets are mainly those countries' contributions to the fleets of Scandinavian Airlines System, which also includes Sweden. We have separated out the Swedish SAS fleet, but it should be remembered that Norway and Denmark are in effect bringing nearly 60 per cent of SAS into the European Economic Community, and hence to the potential EEC aerospace market. From Table 2 it can be shown, as would be expected in the light of the traffic figures in Table 1, that the British air transport fleet is numerically well over half that of all the EEC countries combined. Add the Irish, Danish and Norwegian fleets and the EEC airliner market is increased by no less than 80 per cent. Table 3 shows light civil aircraft numbers. Here the British addition, though substantial, is only about one fifth of that of all the EEC countries combined. France is by far the biggest consumer of light aircraft, having over 4,300 single-engine aeroplanes on the register compared with fewer than 1,600 in Britain. Since Beagle was formed in 1960 in an attempt to re-establish a British light- aircraft industry the French manufacturers, helped by Government assistance to the light-aircraft movement, have built more than 4,000 light aircraft, over 2,000 of them of French design. Table 4 shows that in the civil helicopter field British operators have the biggest fleet. It is in fact nearly half the size of the civil helicopter fleet operated by the six EEC countries combined. Table 5: Airliner Values 1968, $ million EEC(6) Long-range 874 (1,645) Medium-range 795 (403) Total 1,669 (2,048) UK 678 (777) 390 (324) 1,068 (1,101) ( ) — on order. Source: EEC (Soris) Table 6: Estimated Airliner Values 1980, $ million m B m ill *••' SSTs Subsonic Totals Source: EEC (Soris) EEC(6) 3,006 9,449 12,455 UK 711 4,702 5,413 '..••-:•.••••••••••'• •; WSm 1 ; • • •HBHHi Table 5, from an EEC source, shows the relative values of the EEC and UK airliner fleets. As would be expected from the Icao figures in Table 2, the value of the British civil fleet is more than half that of the six EEC countries combined. Table 6 projects Table 5 to 1980, and shows that the British share will still be substantial—five times its present value and nearly half that of the total EEC (six) civil fleet. HS.l25s on the line at Hawker Siddeley's Chester factory. Heading photograph, overleaf, shows HS Harriers (AVSAs) for the US Marine Corps being built at Kingston
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