Geoffrey de Havilland
@geoffreyhavilland
English aircraft engineer (1882–1965)
Building de Havilland Aircraft Company as Founder · United Kingdom
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Key facts
- Lived
- 1882–1965
- Educated at
- St Edward's School · Crystal Palace School
About
Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965) was a military flight engineer and test pilot. They were born in High Wycombe. They studied at St Edward's School.
In context
de Havilland Aircraft Company was founded in 1920 and closed in 1964, after 44 years. Among the 9 other aircraft industry companies founded in the 1920s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 39 years, so this one outlasted most of them.
Contribution
Geoffrey's ideas, decisions and failures appear here once this profile is claimed.