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Air Navigation and Engineering Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1919 to 1927.
The company was formed in1919 when theBlériot & SPAD Manufacturing Company Limited was renamed. The company was based atAddlestoneSurrey.
The Blériot aircraft company had opened a factory at Addlestone during World War I to make SPAD and Avro aircraft and in 1919 the company became theAir Navigation and Engineering Company Limited. One of the first products was acyclecar designed by Herbert Jones and W.D. Marchant called theBlériot-Whippet.
In 1922 the company built a 10-seat biplane airliner (theHandasyde H.2) on behalf of the Handasyde Aircraft Company Limited. The company built a number of light aircraft, the first designed by W.S. Shackelton was theANEC I flying in1923. The aircraft were built at Addlestone then roaded toBrooklands for flight testing. The company stopped producing aircraft in1926 and closed in 1927.
