RNS Number:7171O
Cobham PLC
15 August 2003

Amendment #18

NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- UK COMPANIES ACT

1. Company in which shares are held:   Cobham Plc

2. Notifiable Interest:   Ordinary Shares

     A     FMR Corp
           82 Devonshire Street
           Boston, MA 02109

           Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company 
           (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds and Fidelity
           Management Trust Company (FMTC), a US state chartered bank which acts
           as a trustee or investment manager of various pension and trust 
           accounts. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders 
           and their holdings.)

     B     Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
           P.O. BOX HM 670
           Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda

           Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries,
           including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd. (FISL), and Fidelity
           Pension Management (FPM), investment managers for various non-US 
           investment companies and institutional clients. (See Schedule A for 
           listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings).

3.     The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of:

           Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d
           82 Devonshire Street
           Boston, MA 02109

       Principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International Limited.

4.     The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized
       unit trust schemes in the U.K. notwithstanding the exemption from 
       reporting pursuant to Section 209 (1)(h) of the Companies Act 1985.

5.     These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate
       notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for 
       the purposes of clarity and efficiency. Nothing herein should be taken to 
       indicate that FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, 
       Fidelity International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries
       or Mr Edward C Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of 
       the disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit these 
       notifications on a joint basis.

6.     The disclosable interests arise under section 208(4) (b) of the Act,
       namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled
       to exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to 
       control the exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act
       respectively.


SCHEDULE A

SECURITY: Cobham Plc                                            Amendment # 18


                           SHARES HELD      MANAGEMENT    NOMINEE/REGISTERED
                                              COMPANY          NAME

Ordinary Shares)          
                          1,150,000          FMRCO  HSBC
                              5,100          FMRCO  State Street Bank & Trust
                             10,560          FMTC   State Street Nominees Ltd.
                              7,200          FMTC   Brown Brothers Harriman
                          1,221,829          FISL   Chase Nominees Ltd
                            389,945          FPM    Chase Nominees Ltd
                            471,643          FPM    Bankers Trust
                             65,016          FPM    Citibank
                             58,000          FPM    MSS Nominees Ltd
                            120,600          FPM    HSBC Client Holdings Nominee 
                                                    (UK) Limited
                             92,900          FPM    Mellon Nominees Ltd
                             92,734          FIL    MSS Nominees Ltd
                            430,573          FIL    Nortrust Nominees Ltd
                            267,650          FIL    Bankers Trust
                             58,570          FIL    BT Globenet Nominees Ltd
                            487,768          FIL    RBS Trust Bank
                            132,189          FIL    Morgan Stanley
                            381,890          FIL    State Street Nominees LTD
                            517,676          FIL    Northern Trust
                             54,213          FIL    HSBC Client Holdings Nominee 
                                                    (UK) Limited
                            186,500          FIL    JP Morgan
                            161,311          FIL    Chase Nominees Ltd
                             37,200          FIL    Citibank
                             12,800          FIL    Deutsche Bank AG, London
                          1,299,670          FIL    Bank of New York, London
                            496,618          FIL    Chase Manhattan Bank London
                            331,801          FIL    State Street Bank & Trust
                             11,000          FIL    Mellon Nominees Ltd
                            252,108          FIL    Bank of New York Brussels

Total Ordinary Shares     8,805,064          

Current ownership percentage: 7.94%          
          
Shares in issue:       110,938,524          

Change in holdings since last filing: (273,551) ordinary shares     


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