Key Dates in Serco History
1929
RCA forms UK subsidiary
1964
RCA Great Britain begins maintenance contract at RAF Fylingdales
1971
First operation and maintenance contract for European Space and Research Organisation
1975
First motorway signalling maintenance contract
1987
Management buyout from RCA, Serco is born
1988
Serco floated as a public company
1988
British Aerospace becomes Serco’s first private sector customer
1988
Serco Education wins our first overseas contracts – in Indonesia, Malta, Caribbean, Laos and Philippines
1989
Serco awarded its first local government contract
1996
Our first PFI, to build and operate the RAF's Defence Helicopter Flying School
2004
Our largest ever new contract – Northern Rail