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A-Z Aircraft Manufacturers

Miles Aircraft Company

Southern Aircraft Company

Philips and Powis Aircraft

F. G. Miles Ltd

1930: Charles Powis and Jack Phillips initially founded Philips and Powis Aircraft

1933: Company builds the Hawk aircraft, designed by Frederick George Miles and his wife. Following its success they join the company.

1935: Phillips and Powis Aircraft converts to a public company, financially backed by Rolls-Royce, with F.G. Miles as chairman and MD.

1941: Rolls-Royce withdraw their backing and Miles take control of the company

1943: Company renamed Miles Aircraft Company

1947: The company went bankrupt

1948: Frederick Miles started F. G. Miles Ltd and continued to make aircraft in the Miles name

1960: Company is merged into Beagle Aircraft Ltd

Southern Martlet

First flight: 1929

single-seat sports biplane

A modified AVRO Baby designed by F.G. Miles, and built by his Southern Aircraft Company

6 built (200 G-AAII; 201 G-AAVD; 202 G-AAYX; 203 G-AAYZ, 204 G-ABBN, 205 G-ABIF)

Also the unsuccessful, but of dissimilar design, Metal Martlet (1930)

202 G-AAYX - 2nd production Martlett with an Armstrong-Siddeley Genet Major engine, used by F.G. Miles and later operated by Butlins, and now maintained by the Shuttleworth Trust in airworthy condition.

M.1 SATYR

First flight: 1932

single-seat aerobatic biplane (only one built G-ABVG - destroyed in 1936)

Model of G-ABVG @ Museum of Berkshire Aviation 2024

M.2 HAWK

First flight: 1933

Series of 2-seat light monoplanes

M.2F/G/H/K/M/P/R/S/T HAWK MAJOR

First flight: 1934

Development of the M.2 Hawk

M.2R

CC-FBB 'Saturno' - National Aerospace Museum Santiago, Chile

M.2E/L/U HAWK SIX

First flight: 1934

Racing version of Hawk Major with de Havilland Gipsy Six engine (3 built - E/L/U)

M.2L

G-ADGP

M.2W/X/Y HAWK TRAINER

First flight: 1935

2-seat tourer and racing development of Hawk Major

M.2W

G-ADWT - White Waltham 2019

M3 FALCON

First flight: 1934

Series of 3/4 seat cabin monoplanes

M3A FALCON MAJOR

4 seat

G-AEEG

M3.C FALCON SIX

4 seat - dual controls

EC-ACB - At the rear of the hangar Infante de Orleans Foundation 2019

M.4A Merlin (1935) 5-seat cabin monoplane

M5 SPARROWHAWK

First flight: 1935

Single seat racing monoplane

G-ADNL Model @ Old Warden 2022

M.6 Hawcon (1935) 2-seat experimental monoplane [ K5925 ]

M.7 Nighthawk (1935) 5-seat trainer and Communications

M.8 Peregrine (1936) twin-engine monoplane light transport

M.9 Kestrel (1937) Advanced trainer

M.9A Master I (1939) Advanced trainer

M11A WHITNEY STRAIGHT

First flight: 1936

2 seat monoplane

G-AERV Turweston 2013

M.12 Mohawk (1937) Civil tourer / trainer

M.13 Hobby (1937) Experimental racer

Miles M.14 Magister / HAWK TRAINER III

First flight: 1936

Trainer

G-AJRS Old - Warden October 2012

G-AJRS - Shuttleworth Fly Navy Airshow 2022

N3788 / G-AKPF - Turweston 2013

N3788 / G-AKPF - Turweston 2013

T9800 - Musée Royal de l'Armée, Brussels 2014

G-AFBS Duxford Air Museum 2013

'T9707' / G-AKKR - Museum of Army Flying, Middle Wallop 2016

30-145 / L5999 / EN-002 - Museo Del Aire 2019

ZK-AYW - Museum of Transport and Technology 2017

TC-KAY - Turkish Air Force Museum, Etimesgut, Ankara 2015

'77' / TC-KAH - Turkish Air Force Museum, Yesilkoy, Istanbul 2015

M.15 (1939) 2-seat basic trainer

M.16 Mentor (1938) 3-seat training and communications monoplane

Miles M.17 Monarch

First flight: 1938

Tourer

G-AFLW Rochester 1980's scan

M.18

First flight: 1938

civil utility

G-AHKY M.18 Mk2 - National Museum of Flight, East Fortune 2020

M.19 Master II (1939) advanced trainer

M.20 M20/2

First flight: 1940

prototype low-cost fighter

Model of AX834 @ Museum of Berkshire Aviation 2024

M.22A (design only) designed to F.18/40 specification for a turret-equipped night-fighter

M.24 Master Fighter (1940) emergency conversion of trainer to fighter

M.25 Martinet (1943) target tug

M.26 "X" 55-seat trans-Atlantic airliner (cancelled project)

M.27 Master III (1940) advanced trainer

M.28 Mercury (1941) trainer / communications

M.30 X Minor (1942) small-scale prototype for Miles X airline design

M.33 Monitor

First flight: 1944

twin-engined target tug

Model of NP407 @ Museum of Berkshire Aviation 2024

M.35 Libellula

First flight: 1942

research fighter with tandem-wing design

Model of UO235 @ Museum of Berkshire Aviation 2024

M.37 Martinet Trainer

First flight: 1946

2-seat trainer

MS902 - Museum of Berkshire Aviation 2024

M.38 MESSENGER

First flight: 1942

4-seat liaison and private owner aircraft

M38 Messenger 2A

G-AKIN

G-AIEK

G-AKBO

G-AJOE

G-AJWB

M38 Messenger 4B

G-AKVZ

M.39B M.39B Libellula (1943) scale aircraft of an experimental tandem-wing fast bomber (project cancelled)

M.42 and M.43 (not built) tandem wing designs tendered for an Army ground attack aircraft

M.44 (not built) another design for the ground attack specification

M.48 Messenger 3 (1945) development of Messenger

M.52

(cancelled project) supersonic research aircraft design

Museum of Berkshire Aviation 2024

M.50 Queen Martinet (1944) unmanned target drone version of Martinet

M.57 Aerovan

First flight: 1945

STOL transport

G-AILC - Museum of Berkshire Aviation 2024

M.60 Marathon I (1945) civil airliner design – became Handley Page Marathon

M.63B (not built) Tandem wing jet mailplane

M.64 L.R.5 (1945) 2-seat Single engine light aircraft

M65 GEMINI

First flight: 1945

4-seat tourer

M65 Gemini 1A

G-AKHP

G-AKKB

G-AKKH

ZK-ANT - Museum of Transport and Technology 2017

M.68 Boxcar (1947) transport with detachable cargo container

M.69 Marathon II (1949) Mamba turboprop powered project

M.71 Merchantman (1947) 4-engine development of Aerovan

M.75 Aries (1951) development of Gemini with more powerful engines

M.76 (1953) 2-seat glider development for the British Gliding Association

M.77 Sparrowjet

First flight: 1953

conversion of M.5 Sparrowhawk G-ADNL

Model @ Old Warden 2022

M.100 Student

First flight: 1957

2-seat single engine jet trainer

G-MIOO - Museum of Berkshire Aviation 2024

M.105 H.D.M.105 (1957) conversion of Aerovan with Hurel Dubois wing

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