page_title: Filton
section_title: Industry
hierarchical_section_title: Filton / Industry
caption_attribution_description: BAe Systems aircraft hangars at their Filton factory. The Bristol Brabazon, Bristol Britannia and Concorde were constructed in these buildings. A third hangar is hidden behind these two. Taken by Adrian Pingstone in September 2004 and released to the public domain.
context_page_description: Filton is a suburban town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England, north of the City of Bristol and approximately 5 miles from the city centre. The town centres upon Filton Church, which dates back to the 12th century and is a Grade II listed building.
  The name of the town comes from the Old English feleþe, and tūn. The name dates back to at least 1187.
  Filton has large areas of open space which include several playing fields, a golf course and the former Filton Airport.
context_section_description: Filton has an aerospace connection dating back to the establishment of the Bristol Aeroplane Company. Aerospace companies in Filton include BAE Systems, Airbus, GKN, Rolls-Royce and MBDA, all located around the former Filton Aerodrome. The Concorde supersonic airliner was built here in the late 1960s and 1970s; on 26 November 2003 Concorde 216 (G-BOAF) made the final flight of a Concorde, returning to Filton to be kept there permanently as the centrepiece of the Aerospace Bristol museum, which opened in 2017. This museum also houses the Bristol Aero Collection and examples of helicopters and missiles built at Filton.
  Other employers include the MOD, Viridor, Hewlett Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Royal Mail. Filton is also home to the regional blood processing facility, NHS Blood and Transplant Filton.
  Bristol Cars made hand-built luxury cars in Filton from 1946 until 2011. The company has neither distributors nor dealers and deals directly with customers; they have a showroom and head office in Kensington, London. They claimed to be the last wholly British-owned luxury car builder. The company went into administration in March 2011, and was acquired by the research and development firm Kamkorp.
caption: Aircraft hangars on Filton Airfield. The Bristol Brabazon, Bristol Britannia and Concorde aircraft were constructed here.
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