Avro, which became BAE Systems, closed the site in 2011 In 1909 Alliott Verdon-Roe, born in Patricroft, near Salford, built and flew the Roe 1 Triplane, the first all-British aeroplane.

The story of Avro began in 1909 when Alliott Verdon-Roe, born in Patricroft near Salford, designed and flew the Roe 1 Triplane, the first entirely British-built airplane. By 1910, he and his ...