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BBA Aviation plc is a British multinational aviation services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. BBA Aviation is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. ==History== The company was founded by William Fenton and Walter Cobbett in 1879 as a manufacturer of textile belting for machinery named ''W. Wilson Cobbett Ltd''.〔(BBA Aviation: History )〕 In 1911 it was renamed ''Scandinavia Belting'' and in 1925 it became ''British Belting & Asbestos'' and then in 1967 ''BBA Group''.〔 In 1986 it acquired ''APPH'', a business specialising in landing gear.〔 It formed ''Signature Flight Support'' in 1992 and in 1996 purchased Trinity Aerospace Engineering.〔 Then in March 1998 it acquired H+S Aviation from Vector Industries and in December 1998 it acquired UNC Airwork Corp, a unit of UNC Inc in the US. A major divestment came in 2000 when it sold its Mintex brake-pad division for £389m. It also diversified into flight training in 2000 buying Oxford Aviation. The following year it bought Aircraft Service International Group of the US, doubling the group's presence in the commercial ground handling market. In 2006 BBA demerged its materials technology division, which developed and manufactured nonwoven materials used in the hygiene and medical markets and in numerous industrial applications, and friction materials for train brakes: the demerged business was named ''Fiberweb plc''. It sold Oxford Aviation the following year〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBA Aviation Sells Oxford Airport )〕 and BBA Group's name was changed to ''BBA Aviation'' in 2007 to mark its transformation to a focused aviation group.〔 Then in 2008 it bought the assets of Hawker Beechcraft Services Inc's Line Service Operations for £65.4 million. In 2011 it bought GE Aviation's fuel measurement business for £38.3m and a new services base at Bozeman in Montana, United States for $10.5m. In 2012 it purchased Dryden Air Services and PLH Aviation in Canada. This allowed entry into the Canadian market.〔(Canada,United States : ASIG closes purchase of PLH Aviation Services and Dryden Air Services ) ''MENA Report'', 1 September 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BBA Aviation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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