Editing Avro (section)

{{Short description|British aircraft manufacturer}}
{{About|the British aircraft manufacturer that existed from 1910 to 1963|the British aircraft manufacturer in the 1990s|Avro International Aerospace|other uses}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox company
| name = A.V. Roe and Company
| logo = Avro.png
| type = [[Privately held company|Private]]
| industry = 
| founded = {{Start year|1910}} in [[Brownsfield Mill]], [[Manchester]], [[United Kingdom|U.K.]]
| founder = {{unbulleted list|[[Alliott Verdon Roe|A.V. Roe]]|[[Humphrey Verdon Roe]]}}
| defunct = {{End date|1963}}
| fate = Merged with [[Hawker Siddeley Aircraft]]
| successor = Hawker Siddeley Aviation
| hq_location_city = Alexandra Park, [[Woodford, Greater Manchester|Woodford]],<br>[[Stockport]]
| hq_location_country = United Kingdom
| area_served = <!-- or: | areas_served = -->
| key_people = 
| products = 
| parent = [[Hawker Siddeley]]
}}

'''Avro''' (an [[initialism]] of the founder's name) was a British [[aircraft manufacturer]]. Its designs include the [[Avro 504]], used as a trainer in the First World War, the [[Avro Lancaster]], one of the pre-eminent bombers of the Second World War, and the delta wing [[Avro Vulcan]], a stalwart of the [[Cold War]].

Avro was founded in 1910 by [[Alliott Verdon Roe]] at the [[Brownsfield Mill]] on [[Great Ancoats Street]] in [[Manchester]]. The company remained based primarily in [[Lancashire]] throughout its 53 years of existence, with key development and manufacturing sites in [[Alexandra Park Aerodrome (Manchester)|Alexandra Park]], [[Chadderton]], [[Trafford Park]], and [[Woodford, Greater Manchester]]. The company was merged into [[Hawker Siddeley]] Aviation in 1963, although the Avro name has been used for some aircraft since then.
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