Anthony lawler, e-mail, 26.06.2026 00:27 Hi Charles. I’ve attempted to send you a detailed email.If not received, please notify me and I’ll resend. Thanks, Anthony

Anthony lawler, e-mail, 25.06.2026 23:51 Hi Charles, I believe I’m a little older than you at 86. I was born in SA but we mo ed to Salisbury when I was ten. I was already interested in aircraft but sadly never flew in a Viking of CAA or a Tudor. I do have a professionally made model of a Tudor 1 with the Speedbird emblem on the nose. I have an histotic collection of airliner models including a 53 inch span Handley Page made of their HP 0/400 bomber conversion to serve as a 14 seater airliner for HP Transport. I’m now trying to find a buyer who could establisga museum and display my very rare early models chronologically to illustrate the evolution of the airliner. See book Airliner Models by Anthony J Lawler if interested. Regards, Anthony

Trevor Webb, e-mail, 24.01.2021 06:50 Noting an old posting about the jet powered Tudors, some sources give slightly different details. The Tudor 8 is listed as a Tudor 1 airframe fitted with four of the Rolls Royce Nene 4 engines. Six Tudor 2 airframes were completed initially as the Tudor 9 and then called the Ashton. These were powered by four of the Nene 6 and had a tricycle undercarriage.

jtckent@yahoo.co.uk, 22.10.2016 15:53 Structual failure - unlikely - Avro aircraft were well built Engine fires - unlikely. Fuel starvation - possible - reserve cocks were in the pax cabin (why?) total navigation/radio etc.,systems failure ? sabotage ? fire - unlikely - the W/Op would have had time to send SOS then "clamp" the key. Altimeter - the 3 pointer type was still in use despite it being dangerous as it could be misread so flight into the sea ? CO poisoning from heaters ? pressurisation failure ? failed hi-jacking - unlikely. Remember - most of the pilots/Flt Engrs/W.Ops were ex Bomber Command so were experienced

Charles Milner., e-mail, 25.05.2012 21:07 In 1950 I flew from Johannesburg to London on a Tudor, it belonged to a charter company my father sold tickets for. I remember we took 3 flying days to London (no night flying). I do remember (I was a 4yo) stopping in Nairobi and being driven around a game reserve in the evening. I cannot remember the other stop. I still have my childish drawings of the plane. My first ever flight as a 3 yo was from Johannesburg to Cape Town in a Viking.

Steve Rickard, e-mail, 11.02.2011 04:24 Avro got a lot of distance using the Lancaster wing, with the York and the Tudor. One article I read had a statement from a BSAA pilot the Tudor had the worst systems he had ever seen. Most tudors on the Berlin ailift were used as tankers. RAF and British civil contractors delivered about 31% of he total tonnage flown to Berlin. The rest by the USAF.

Kinta Jennings, e-mail, 24.01.2011 00:10 Kia Ora, Am trying to get in touch with someone re the photographs on this website and if it would be possible to get permission to use them in a television broadcast we do in New Zealand for ANZAC (Australian & New Zealand Army Corps.) Day - April 25th. Would be great if someone could please get in contact with me. Thanks, Kinta

Barry, 20.01.2011 13:06 It was in an Avro Tudor V that the deigner of the Lancaster and Lincoln and in fact the Tudor itself, Roy Chadwick, lost his life. He went up in a test flight where control wires had been crossed over and the pilot failed to notice in his pre flight checks. The plane took off and promptly nose dived killing both Chadwick and the pilot. This plane was a very poorly put together aeroplane and a great disservice to the name of Avro. An example of how bad, was that the heating was provided by bleeding off fuel from the fuel tanks. Consider that high octane aviation fuel to heat the aeroplane what a great idea!

anthony leyfeldt, e-mail, 06.01.2010 00:09 Just to reed about the Avro Tudor, it fascinates me..her history and I am very lucky to get original pictures of the Tudor 8 fitted with 4RR nene turbojets, just what Peter reed is mentioning. Is there still something, somewhere left of these Tudors? Still a fascinating aircraft, just like the Vickers Viking.....but that is another story

Rhodri Thomas, e-mail, 24.11.2009 13:19 To gerwyn Morgan. Yes you are right it was an Avro tudor 5 tail no G-AKBY, (STAR GIRL)It crashed on the approach to Llandow airport, killing all but three of the passengers and crew. My father Mel Thomas is now the only living survivor of the air crash, and it will be 50 years since the crash in march 2010.

Salil, e-mail, 18.09.2009 20:02 today i seen Avro's (2 engine) landing and take-off, its really miracle compare to jet liners. I do not know about it model, but it is still in use in defence. so open search page for avro.

Mike Hosgood, e-mail, 05.06.2009 18:05 I seem to recal that at the time BSAAC were flying the Tudors to South America, no one else had even attempted this. This loss of Star Tiger and Star Aries were used as a political excuse to cut back on the Tudors and order some DC 4's and 6's as part of a complex deal to get cheap grain from the U.S. Had the development of the Tudor 8 continued, it may have been in service at the same time as the Comet. The Tudors were reputed to have carried a larger tonnage during the Berlin Airlift, than any other aircraft. Just another example of Politicians destroying British Industry as the did with the TSR 2 and Blue Steel.

Sgt.KAR98, 15.11.2008 21:35 Nice plane,looks a prettier DC-3

Gerwyn Morgan, e-mail, 01.09.2008 22:11 I think i am right in saying that a Tudor crashed as it approached Llandow Airport near Cardiff in March 1950 killing some 75 passengers and crew. The aircraft was on a return charter flight from Dublin and was full of Welsh rugby supporters. The crash was the worst airliner disaster up to that time.

Michael CROSS, e-mail, 12.04.2008 13:55 Does anybody have the company records for these aircraft, I have a merlin engine from one of these aircraft, and am trying to trace the history.

Peter Reed, e-mail, 06.10.2007 22:30 A correction: The sixth Tudor 5 was completed as a Tudor 5, not as the Hercules engined aircraft. The Hercules engined aircraft, G-AGRX, was a converted Mk 2, called the Tudor 7. There was also the Tudor 8, which was a Mark 4 fitted with 4 RR Nene turbojets. The most commonly overlooked fact about the Tudors may be that the long fuselage Marks (2,5 and 7) were not only longer bu WIDER--a different diameter fuselage tube than the Marks 1,3,4, 4B and 8. Some of the larger Tudor airframes were completed as Ashtons (jet powered, tricycle undercart).

ian kidger, e-mail, 28.09.2007 19:15 do u think the b.s.s.a tutors that went missing could have had a weakness in the air frame?