For homonymous articles, see Beagle (disambiguation).
Beagle Aircraft Ltd is a lost British aeronautical manufacturer.
In 1960 light aircraft manufacturers Auster Aircraft Company and F.G. Miles Ltd (in) were merged into British Executive And General Aviation Ltd, becoming Beagle-Auster Ltd and Beagle-Miles Ltd. respectively. In 1962 the names Auster and Miles disappeared in favor of a single company name, Beagle Aircraft Ltd which continued the production of the A109 Airedale Auster until 1965, A61 Terrier and D5 Husky (in) until 1967. p>
To succeed the range Miles (en) Beagle developed a two-seater tourism and aerobatics, the Beagle Pup. To focus on the production of this camera all right on the Auster range were sold at the end of 1967 for £ .35000 to Hants and Sussex Aviation, Portsmouth. But the Pup's production costs were largely underestimated, and the British government refused the aid of £ .6 million, so Beagle found herself in a state of insolvency and forced a bankruptcy on February 27th. 1970.
On May 19, 1969, the Beagle Bulldog, a prototype for a two-seater early military training derived from the Beagle Pup, flew for the first time. This device interesting to the RAF, Scottish Aviation (in) bought the rights and transferred the activity to Prestwick where were produced 318 Bulldog for ten customers.
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