Eric Cecil Gordon England (5 April 1891 – February 1976) AFRAeS, FIMT,[1] was a British aviator, racing driver and engineer.

Gordon England was one of the early pioneers of gliding, and his glider flight in 1909 is considered to be the birth of the sport of soaring.

[3][4] He then started an engineering apprenticeship with the Great Northern Railway works at Doncaster[3] becoming a fellow-apprentice of W O Bentley.

In 1908, he left the railways for his first job in aviation, working as an assistant for Noel Pemberton Billing who was trying to establish a flying ground at South Fambridge in Essex.

Gordon England left the Bristol company, and in 1912 in association with James Radley produced the Radley-England waterplane; it was the first three-engined aircraft built in the United Kingdom.

In 1916, he became the factory manager[citation needed] for Frederick Sage & Company, which was building Short-designed seaplanes and Avro 504Ks under licence.