
Formed from three independent companies with parts dating back to the early 1900s, AIM Aviation began a strong general engineering background with the oldest company, ‘Henshalls’, making milk churns amongst other products and ‘Jecco’, designing car hoods, coachworks and other products for the Air Ministry.The companies came together with the founding of AIM Aviation in 1978. The group became a Public Limited Company in 1982 and subsequently de-listed in 2001.
AIM Aviation specialises in the design and manufacture of the complete range of cabin interiors to provide added value and vital differentiation for the world’s leading aircraft manufacturers, airlines and leasing companies.
Using the most advanced materials, AIM creates innovative solutions to unique specifications, harmonizing our customers’ ambitions to the latest regulatory requirements.
In-house design, certification and testing facilities combine with the latest Computer Aided Design and manufacturing techniques to improve aesthetics and maximise crucial strength-to-weight ratios.
Originally founded in Bournemouth in 1926 under its former name of John E Clarke and Company Ltd, a coach and car trimming business. The company’s reputation for innovation has progressed through complete interiors for Saab Aircraft and Concorde interior furnishing items to major prestige contracts on both Airbus and Boeing wide and narrow body aircraft.
Based in Byfleet, Surrey, is the oldest company in the group, originating over one hundred years ago. For the past forty years it has developed into a sophisticated company producing Galley systems and associated interior components for the most modern civil aircraft yet conceived.
Founded in 1984 outside Cambridge, is one of the leading composite companies in Europe working with the latest in materials and technologies for a wide range of customers in Aerospace and related industries. AIM supply advanced lightweight panels to all major aircraft manufacturers and airlines as well as the mass transit industry including rail, marine and road transport.