Airspeed Ltd.

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Airspeed

Company type	Private Ltd
Industry	Aeronautical engineering
Founded	1931
Defunct	1951
Fate	Merged
Successor	de Havilland
Headquarters	Founded in York, England moved to Portsmouth, England.
Key people	A.H. Tiltman Nevil Shute Norway
Products	Aircraft
Parent	de Havilland (1940–1951)

Airspeed Limited was established in 1931 to build aeroplanes in York, England, by A. H. Tiltman and Nevil Shute Norway (the aeronautical engineer and novelist, who used his forenames as his pen-name). The other directors were A. E. Hewitt, Lord Grimthorpe and Alan Cobham. Amy Johnson was also one of the initial subscribers for shares.