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| Embodying considerable redesign by comparison with
the Siskin II, the Siskin III featured an enlarged upper wing,
a lower wing of reduced chord and Vee-type instead
of parallel interplane struts. The Siskin III was
powered by the 350hp Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar III
engine, and was ordered for the RAF to Specification
15/22. The prototype was tested in 1923, the first production
example flying on 24 March 1924. Armament
comprised two 7.7mm Vickers machine guns, and 50 single-seat examples were built for the
RAF, one of these later being passed to the RCAF.
Twelve two-seat trainer models were also built.
| MODEL | Siskin III |
| WEIGHTS |
| Take-off weight | 1241 kg | 2736 lb |
| Empty weight | 830 kg | 1830 lb |
| DIMENSIONS |
| Wingspan | 10.08 m | 33 ft 1 in |
| Length | 6.85 m | 22 ft 6 in |
| Height | 2.97 m | 10 ft 9 in |
| Wing area | 27.50 m2 | 296.01 sq ft |
| PERFORMANCE |
| Max. speed | 216 km/h | 134 mph |
| Paul McMillan, e-mail, 05.07.2016 11:50 Q: "Do you have any record of a Siskin piloted by F /O Taylor crashing on 9 /10 /1924"
A: AW SISKIN J7147 of 41Sqn looped and dived into ground after formation take-off, Netheravon. - ST GEORGE-TAYLOR, Harold, P /O - Killed 9 October 1924- Death Registered Amesbury reply | | John Phillips, e-mail, 12.11.2012 15:41 Do you have any record of a Siskin piloted by F /O Taylor crashing on 9 /10 /1924?
o reply | | Ian White, e-mail, 19.08.2010 14:03 The Air Ministry placed orders for sixty-two aircraft, with the first Siskin III entering RAF service with No.41 (Fighter) Squadron at Northolt in May 1924 and with No.111 (Fighter) Squadron at Duxford the following June. Thirty-two of the Siskin IIIs were converted to dual control Siskin DCs, to serve as training aircraft with Nos.3 and 5 Flying Training Schools (FTS) at Grantham and Sealand, the RAF College, Cranwell, and a number of fighter squadrons. The Siskin III was withdrawn from front line service in March 1927. reply |
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