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On 9 August 1937 Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen,
chairman of British-American Tobacco, founded
BAO at Eastleigh near Southampton. The company
changed its name to Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft Ltd in
May 1938, and improved and re-engined a single
example of the American 14-seat Burnelli UB-14
airliner under the designation OA-1, replacing the two
Pratt & Whitney radials with Bristol Perseus XIVs.
| Andrew Raney, slodog(@)swbell.net, 12.04.2008 The Cunliffe-Owen OA-1 was a license built Burnelli UB-14.
The aircraft later served as General Charles de Gaulle's Transport during WW II. More details at WWW.aircrash.org |
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