The Type D is notable in two respects. First, the prototype was at one point fitted with floats to make ... read more ... |
Avro Type D 1911 |
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One aircraft only, first flown in February 1912; converted into the Lakes Sea Bird in October 1912, crashed at Windermere ... read more ... |
Avro Duigan Biplane 1912 |
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Non-specialist readers will know, and perhaps remember, the participation in World War II of such aircraft as the Avro Anson ... read more ... |
Avro 504 1913 |
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Built for the Admiralty early in 1916, the Avro 519 single seat biplane bore
a distinct resemblance to the Avro 510 ... read more ... |
Avro 519 1916 |
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Avro 521 1916 |
The Avro 521 two-seat fighter, which was flown late in
1915, was something of a hybrid in that it embodied a
number ... read more ... |
Flown for the first time in May 1916, the Pike three-seat
twin-engined biplane was designed primarily to meet
an Admiralty requirement for ... read more ... |
Avro 523 Pike 1916 |
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Avro 527 1916 |
The final two-seat fighter derivative of the basic Avro
504 design, the Avro 527 was built for the RFC and
flown for ... read more ... |
Of relatively clean aerodynamic design by contemporary
standards and featuring a ducted propeller spinner,
the Avro 530 two-seat fighter was designed in ... read more ... |
Avro 530 1917 |
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Avro 531 Spider 1918 |
An unsponsored private-venture single-seat fighter designed
by Roy Chadwick and flown for the first time in
April 1918, the Spider made use ... read more ... |
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Avro 555 Bison 1921 |
Deck-landing reconnaissance and Fleet gunnery spotting biplane, first flown in 1921. Twelve Bison Is built for the FAA in 1923. ... read more ... |
Three-seat heavy bomber of 1922 powered by a 485kW Rolls-Royce Condor III engine. Fifteen built for No 99 Squadron, RAF, ... read more ... |
Avro 549 Aldershot 1922 |
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Avro 566 Avenger 1926 |
Aerodynamically one of the cleanest fighter biplanes of
its era, the Avenger, designed as a private venture by
Roy Chadwick, was first ... read more ... |
Wooden two-seat Avro 581 Avian powered by a 52kW Armstrong Siddeley Genet engine; built for the Lympne Trials. As the ... read more ... |
Avro 581 Avian 1927 |
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Avro 584 Avocet 1927 |
The Avocet was designed to the requirements of Specification
17/25, which, issued in June 1926, called for an
all-metal stressed-skin shipboard fighter ... read more ... |
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Avro 621 Tutor 1929 |
The original Avro Trainer of 1929 was designed as a replacement for the Avro 504N and featured a welded steel-tube ... read more ... |
One aircraft only, conversion of unfinished Avro 608 Hawk. Completed as Avro 627 Mailplane. Converted to Avro 654 in 1933. read more ... |
Avro 627 Mailplane 1931 |
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The Manchester was a twin-engined, medium-range bomber. First flown in prototype form in July 1939 with twin fins and rudders ... read more ... |
Avro 679 Manchester 1939 |
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Avro 683 Lancaster 1941 |
Most famous of all Avro military aircraft and without doubt the most successful heavy night bomber to be deployed over ... read more ... |
The York transport aircraft was developed from the Lancaster bomber. The original prototype first flew in July 1942. The type ... read more ... |
Avro 685 York 1942 |
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Avro 691 Lancastrian 1943 |
The Lancastrian was a high-speed long-range transport conversion of the Lancaster bomber. The first conversions were made in Canada by ... read more ... |
The last piston-engined bomber to serve with the RAF, the Lincoln conformed to Specification B.14/43 and was virtually a scaled-up ... read more ... |
Avro 694 Lincoln 1944 |
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Avro Tudor 1945 |
The original Type 688 Tudor was conceived in 1943 to Specification 29/43 as a commercial conversion of the Lancaster for ... read more ... |
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Avro 701 Athena 1948 |
Two-seat trainer designed (to Specification T.7/45) for advanced flying training, day and night navigation, gunnery, bombing and photography. It could ... read more ... |
Built primarily to carry out extensive research into the behaviour of delta wings at low speeds and to provide information ... read more ... |
Avro 707 1949 |
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Avro 696 Shackleton 1949 |
The Shackleton was a maritime reconnaissance aircraft with a stressed skin fuselage and Avro Tudor and Lincoln components. Armament comprised ... read more ... |
Large research aircraft, six of which were built for the Ministry of Supply to act as test-beds for research into ... read more ... |
Avro 706 Ashton 1950 |
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Avro 698 Vulcan 1952 |
The first jet bomber to employ the delta-wing configuration. The original Avro 698 Vulcan prototype was developed to Air Ministry ... read more ... |
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