page_title: Short Brothers
section_title: 1960–1989
hierarchical_section_title: Short Brothers / Aircraft / 1960–1989
caption_attribution_description: English: Royal Air Force Short Tucano T1 (ZF210) at the 2008 Air Day, Kemble Airport, Gloucestershire, England. This aircraft is in special colours as the RAF display Tucano for 2008. The Tucano T1 is a modified version of the Brazilian Embraer EMB 312 Tucano and is built under licence by Short of Belfast in Northern Ireland.
context_page_description: Short Brothers plc, usually referred to as Shorts or Short, is an aerospace company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Shorts was founded in 1908 in London, and was the first company in the world to make production aeroplanes. It was particularly notable for its flying boat designs manufactured into the 1950s.
  In 1943 Shorts was nationalised and later denationalised, and in 1948 moved from its main base at Rochester, Kent to Belfast. In the 1960s, Shorts mainly produced turboprop airliners, major components for aerospace primary manufacturers, and missiles for the British Armed Forces.
  Shorts was primarily government-owned until being bought by Bombardier in 1989, and is today the largest manufacturing concern in Northern Ireland. In 2019, Bombardier announced that it would sell its Belfast operations to Spirit AeroSystems.
  The company's products include aircraft components, engine nacelles and aircraft flight control systems for its parent company Bombardier Aerospace, and for Boeing, Rolls-Royce Deutschland, General Electric and Pratt & Whitney.
context_section_description: Short SC9 Canberra (1961)
  Short SD1 Canberra (1961)
  Short SC7 Skyvan (1963)
  Short SC5 Belfast (1964)
  Shorts 330 (1974)
  Shorts 360 (1981)
  Shorts C-23 Sherpa (1985)
  Short 312 Tucano (1986, last aircraft design prior to becoming part of Bombardier Aerospace in 1989)
caption: Royal Air Force Short 312 Tucano in special colours as the RAF's 2008 display aircraft.
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