High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Airship Industries was a British manufacturer of modern non-rigid airships (blimps) active under that name from 1980 to 1990 and controlled for part of that time by Alan Bond. A predecessor company, Aerospace Developments, had been founded in 1971, and a successor, Hybrid Air Vehicles, remains active as of 2011. In addition to its activities in non-rigid airships, the firm briefly proposed, but did not build, a number of rigid designs; a large non-rigid for the United States Navy was also unrealised. The historic airship facilities at Cardington, Bedfordshire (the former Royal Airship Works), were used as a base for the firm`s test flying and an assembly site for some of its airships.