Originally Posted by
Asturias56
"Sorry about the lack of British designed, built thing but we know that just is not going to happen."
always struck me as odd that someone building a very successful aircraft never looked at developing a successor - same with the HS125 Biz jet
English Electric/BAC never wanted to produce anything other than military combat types; they got rid of all civil types as well as the Hawk as quickly as they could when BAE was formed and 'ran down' production of anything which originated in the Hawker Siddeley inventory.
They also closed the other airfields, Dunsfold, Hatfield, Filton, Woodford in order to make it look like they were still producing lots of aircraft. Now they need somewhere to set up a new production run of a new trainer, they have no capacity.