Editing Aviation Traders (section)

{{Short description|1947–1959 British aviation company}}
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{{Use British English|date=May 2017}}
'''Aviation Traders Limited''' (ATL) was a [[World War II|war]]-surplus aircraft and spares trader formed in 1947. In 1949, it began maintaining aircraft used by some of Britain's contemporary independent [[airline]]s on the [[Berlin Blockade|Berlin Airlift]]. In the early 1950s, it branched out into aircraft conversions and manufacturing. During that period it also became a subcontractor for other aircraft manufacturers. By the end of the decade, it was taken over by the [[Airwork Services|Airwork]] group.<ref name="Mondey">Mondey 2000, p.116</ref><ref name="valuation">''Fly me, I'm Freddie!'', p. 54</ref><ref name="carferries">''Airliner World – Britain's Carferry Airlines'', Key Publishing, Avenel, NJ, USA, July 2005, p. 34</ref>