Welcome to Slingsby Advanced Composites Ltd                                        

Life began for Slingsby in the 1930’s, as Slingsby Sailplanes, and it became famous for its world beating gliders.

Today, Slingsby Advanced Composites is a successful supplier of composite structures for a number of different industries but primarily for the aerospace and defence industry.

It has a wealth of experience in the design and manufacture of a wide range of composite structures, ranging from large marine structures, such as submarine rudders, to lightweight helmets for helmet mounted display systems.

Slingsby Advanced Composites is also well known for the manufacture of the highly successful T67 Firefly 2-seat aerobatic training aircraft, used to train military pilots in many countries around the world.

And operating on the land and at sea, in such diverse regions as the arctic circle and the equatorial Niger delta, are Slingsby’s SAH2200 hovercraft, 2 of which were recently made famous in the James Bond movie, ‘Die Another Day’.

Slingsby Advanced Composites has always taken an innovative approach and is keen to remain at the forefront of composite technology.

During the last 30 years or more, Slingsby Advanced Composites has achieved many ‘firsts’.

The first:
• Composite crew module on the LR5 deepwater submarine rescue craft
• Composite submarine rudder
• 2-tonne GRP hovercraft
• GRP light aerobatic aircraft on the CAA register
• Supplier outside of the USA to be awarded Star Supplier status by Lockheed Martin
• Carbon yacht mast
• Kevlar airship gondola