Kingsbury Aviation was an English aircraft manufacturer and engineering business based at Kingsbury Aerodrome,Kingsbury, London from 1916.
From 1915 the engineering company Barningham Limited used a building near Kingsbury House to manufacture equipment in support of the war effort.[1] In 1916 it purchased the 109-acre Kingsury House estate and with planning permission for twohangars it createdKingsbury Aerodrome and formed a new company Kingsbury Aviation.[1]
Kingsbury Aviation had a contract to build 150Airco DH.6 training biplanes for theRoyal Flying Corps (RFC)[2] and by mid-1918 it employed 800 people on the site.[1] The company had a contract to build 20Vickers Vimy biplane bombers but with the end of theFirst World War the government contracts were cancelled.[1] The company designed and built a motor scooter and a light car but they were not a success and they went into liquidation in 1921.[1] After a few years of being empty the aerodrome and hangars were purchased byVanden Plas to build motor car bodies.[1]