Marshall Group, formerly Marshall of Cambridge and Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group, is a British company headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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26 Facts About Marshall Aerospace
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Traditionally focused on military customers, Marshall Aerospace has increasingly orientated itself towards the civilian sector in recent decades.
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In October 2021, Marshall announced that it had decided to move its Group headquarters and Aerospace operations to Cranfield Airport and that "it will leave its current base at Cambridge Airport by 2030".
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Marshall Aerospace group was originally established during 1909 by its founder David Gregory Marshall Aerospace, who gave the company his name.
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In 1912, Marshall Aerospace worked on its first aircraft, helping to repair the engine of a British Army airship, the Beta II, which had made an emergency landing in Jesus Green, near its garage.
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Accordingly, in 1938, a major flying training school for the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve was established by Marshall Aerospace; it had reportedly trained over 600 new RAF pilots prior to the start of the Battle of Britain.
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Marshall Aerospace performed work on over 5,000 aircraft, ranging in size and complexity from Airspeed Oxford and Avro Anson transport aircraft to front-line combat types as the de Havilland Mosquito, Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, Vickers Wellington and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
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Marshall Aerospace chose to continue its involvement in aviation work, such as repairs, structural modifications and conversions, even after the war's end, although it mostly abandoned its final assembly work.
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Marshall Aerospace was involved with the National Research Development Corporation, assisting Francis Thomas Bacon in the invention of the fuel cell.
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Marshall Aerospace managed the company for several decades, during which time it became one of the largest privately owned businesses in Britain.
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Since 1966, Marshall Aerospace has been the designated support company for the Royal Air Force's fleet of C-130 Hercules.
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Marshall Aerospace oversaw the introduction of RAF's 25 second generation C-130J Super Hercules fleet, as well as the retirement of half of the service's first generation aircraft.
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Marshall Aerospace Group has signed multiple agreements with US defense conglomerate Lockheed Martin to manufacture various components of the Super Hercules on behalf of the latter's for the global supply chain.
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Marshall Aerospace functioned as the design authority for the RAF's fleet of Lockheed TriStar tanker and freighter aircraft; as well as the appointed sister design authority for the RAF's Boeing E-3D Sentry.
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Marshall Aerospace has performed a variety of passenger to tanker and freighter aircraft conversions.
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Marshall Aerospace was the designated industrial body involved in the Vulcan to the Sky project, which restored Avro Vulcan XH558 to a flight-worthy condition and supported its operations for numerous years.
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In mid 2000, Marshall Aerospace became involved in the Global Express' manufacturing process, performing interior completions on behalf of Bombardier.
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In September 2013, Marshall Aerospace purchased Hawker Beechcraft's services branch at Broughton, subsequently rebranding it Marshall Aerospace Aviation Services as well as being appointed Hawker's distributor for the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia.
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Marshall Aerospace signed a multi-year multi-million-pound support contract for the C-130J fleet.
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Marshall Aerospace's headquarters is located on an 800-acre site in Cambridge, UK.
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Marshall Aerospace has been involved with all levels of aircraft maintenance, modification and conversion for more than seventy years.
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Marshall Aerospace has the authorisation and experience to work on a range of aircraft from Cessna Citations to Boeing 747s in civil use, and Lockheed C-130 Hercules and Lockheed L-1011 TriStars for the military.
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Marshall Aerospace carries out maintenance from routine daily maintenance to a full aircraft depot level checks.
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Marshall Aerospace has other hangar space that can hold up to 12 C-130s at a time.
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Besides aerospace, Marshall operates other divisions in a diverse range of fields.
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In May 2019, Marshall Aerospace announced that Cambridge City Airport would be closed to all traffic by 2030 at the latest.
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