Avro: Aircraft

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List of aircraft produced.

Note: Built by Avro.

Note: Built by Avro Canada.

Avro Aircraft
Model	Date	Detail
Roe I Biplane	1908	Experimental Aircraft. One built.
Roe I Triplane	1909	Experimental Aircraft. Two built.
Roe II Triplane	1910	Experimental Aircraft. Two built.
Roe III Triplane	1910	Experimental Aircraft. Six built.
Roe IV Triplane	1911	Trainer. One built.
Avro Type D	1911	Experimental Aircraft. Seven built.
Avro 500	1911	Biplane with 50 hp Gnome. The E was a single seater ('s' for single). 12 built.
Avro Duigan 1911	1912	Biplane.
Avro Type H, 501 and 503 Seaplane	1913	They were a development of the Avro 500 design and were originally conceived of as amphibious.
Avro 502	1913	The Es was a dual-seater version of the 500. 4 built
Avro Burga	1913	Experimental monoplane.
Avro Type F	1912	Experimental monoplane. One built.
Avro Type G	1912	Experimental biplane. One built.
Avro 504 /504N Lynx	September 1913	A biplane trainer derived from the 500. Also used as a two-seater reconnaissance or single seat fighter. Total of 8,340 produced for WW1 and after. The aircraft were produced at Hamble, Failsworth, Miles Platting and Newton Heath. 504 used 80 hp Gnome, Le Rhone and Gnome Monosoupape rotary engines 504D used 80 hp Gnome 504J used 100 hp Gnome Monosoupape 504K used 130 hp Clerget, 110 hp Le Rhone or 100 hp Gnome Monosoupape
Avro 508	1915	Reconnaissance aircraft.
Avro 510	1914	Racing and Patrol seaplane.
Avro 511	1913	Scout
Avro 519	1916	Bomber
Avro 521	Jan 1916	Two-seater biplane with various wing spans mainly for experimental use. Powered by 110 hp Clerget 9Z engine.
Avro 523 Pike	1916	Multi role military aircraft.
Avro 527	1916	Fighter.
Avro 528	1917	-
Avro 529	1917	Long range bomber.
Avro 530	1917	Fighter
Avro 531 Spider	1918	Fighter
Avro 533 Manchester	1918	Photo-reconnaissance/bomber biplane.
Avro Baby	1919	Sports plane.
Avro 536	1919	Utility aircraft.
Avro 539	1919	Racing biplane.
Avro 547	1920	Airliner.
Avro 548	1920	Two seater trainer. Small number produced for RAF.
Avro 549 Aldershot	1920	The Avro 549 Aldershot was a British single-engined biplane bomber aircraft built by Avro. The Aldershot was designed to meet the 1920 British Air Ministry Specification 2/20 for an interim bomber design. Two prototypes and 15 production aircraft made.
Avro 552	1921	Civil utility aircraft.
Avro 555 Bison	1922-29	A three / four crew biplane used for maritime reconnaissance and able to deck land. Powered by a 480 hp Napier Lion II. 53 were produced.
Avro Avian	1927	Two-seater light biplane trainer.
557 Ava	1924	Torpedo bomber.
Avro 558	1923	Ultralight biplane.
Avro 560	1923	Ultralight monoplane.
Avro Andover	1923	Passenger/air ambulance.
Avro Avis	1924	Light biplane.
Avro Avenger	1926	Fighter.
Avro 571 Buffalo	1927	Landing Torpedo Carrier.
Avro Antelope	1928	Light bomber.
Avro 618 Ten	1929	Eight passenger Fokker type monoplane.
Avro 619 Five	-	Five-seat civil transport aircraft.
Avro 621 Tutor	1930-39	A biplane trainer powered by 180 hp Armstrong Siddeley Motors Lynx IV or the 240 hp Lynx IVc. 795 were built with 394 delivered to the RAF
Avro 626/Prefect	1930	Adaptation of Tutor for navigational training with the RAF.
Avro 627 Mailplane	1931	Light transport.
Avro Cadet	1931?	Smaller version of Tutor
Avro 636	1935	Fighter trainer. 168 exported.
Avro 637		Armed patrol aircraft. 8 exported.
Avro 642	1935	Four-engined 16-seater passenger liner.
Avro 652	1935	Civilian twin-engined monoplane
Avro 652A Anson	1936-68	'Faithful Annie' was a maritime reconnaissance; bomber; trainer and communications aircraft version of the civilian 652. A twin-engined monoplane with a crew of three / four and powered by - Mk1: Two 335hp Armstrong Siddeley Motors Cheetah IX Mk2: Two 395hp Armstrong Siddeley Motors Cheetah XIX Mk 5 & 6: Two 450 hp Pratt and Whitney Wasp junior More than 11,00 were built with the RAF using around 7,000. Canadian factories built 2,882.
Avro 641 Commodore	1935	Four-seater passenger biplane.
Avro 679 Manchester 1 & 1a	1939	A heavy night bomber with a crew of seven. Powered by two 1,760 hp Rolls-Royce Vulture 1. 200 ordered. 40% were lost on operations and another 25% were lost to accidents. Replaced by the Lancaster.
Avro 683 Lancaster	1941	Heavy bomber with a crew of seven. Powered by - MkI: Four 1,280 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin XX MkII: Four 1,650 hp Bristol Hercules VI or XVI MkIII & X: Four 1,300 hp Packard Merlin 28 MkVII: Four 1,750 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 85/102 First conceived as a MK3 version of the Manchester. A total of 7,378 were built.
Avro 685 York	1943	A four-engined transport plane with five crew and up to 24 passengers. Powered by 1,620 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin T24 or 502 types. It used the Lancaster's wings, undercarriage, engines and tail assembly but with a modified body. The RAF used 208 but others were built for civilian use.
Avro 688 Tudor	1945	A piston-engined airliner based on the Lincoln bomber, itself a descendant of the famous Avro Lancaster. Although it had reasonably long range, customers saw the aircraft as little more than a pressurised Douglas DC-3, and few orders were forthcoming. Powered by four 1,770-hp (1312-kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin 621 piston engines or with four 1,760-hp (1305-kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin 23 piston engines.
Avro 691 Lancastrian	1943	A British passenger and mail transport aircraft of the 1940s and 1950s developed from the Avro Lancaster bomber.
Avro 694 Lincoln	1944-55	Heavy bomber with six to eight crew based on the Lancaster. Powered by - MkI: Four 1,750 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 85 MkII: Four 1,750 hp Packard Merlin 68/300 MkIV: Four 1,750 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 85a Mk30b: Four 1,750 hp Rolls-Royce Merlin 102
Avro 701 Athena	1948	Prototype training aircraft.
Avro Canada: C102 Jetliner	1949	Prototype medium-range jet airliner
CF 100 Canuck	1951	Avro Canada Night Fighter.
Avro Canada: CF-103	1951	Transonic Fighter
Avro 696 Shackleton	1949-91	Long range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine with a crew of 6-10. Powered by four 2,450 hp Rolls-Royce Griffon 57/57a engines
Avro 707	1949	The Avro 707 was a British experimental aircraft built to test the delta wing design for the Avro 698 jet bomber (later to become the Vulcan), and was effectively a one-third scaled-down version of that aircraft. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Derwent 8 turbojet, 3,600 lb engine.
Avro 698 Vulcan	1955-84	High and low altitude bomber and for low-level strategic reconnaissance. Five crew. Powered by - B1: Four 11,000 lb thrust Bristol Olympus 101 or 12,000 lb thrust Bristol Olympus 102 or 13,000 lb thrust Bristol Olympus 103 B2: Four 17,000 lb thrust Bristol-Siddeley Olympus 201 or 22,000 lb thrust Bristol-Siddeley Olympus 301 45 of the B1 produced. Also B2 and SR2 models
Avro Canada: CF-105 Arrow	1958	Interceptor.
Avro Canada: VZ-9 Avrocar	1959	Experimental "proof-of-concept" VTOL vehicle.
Avro 748 Andover	1965	Transporter. A military version of the 748 civilian airliner. The RAF took just 31 aircraft. Powered by two 3,245 hp Rolls-Royce Dart RDa12 Mk 201c turboprops. Later became the Hawker Siddeley Andover and BAe 748.
Avro 706 Ashton	1950	Prototype jet airliner made by Avro during the 1950s. Although it flew nearly a year before the de Havilland Comet, it represented an experimental programme and was never intended for commercial use. Based on the Avro 688 Tudor 8 piston-engined airliner, the Avro Type 689 Tudor 9 later renamed the Ashton was a four-jet engined research aeroplane powered by Nene engines paired in wing nacelles. Six were built using the Avro Tudor airframe
Avro 722 Atlantic	-	Airliner

Avro Rotorcraft
Model	Date	Detail
Cierva Autogiro	1927

See Also

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Sources of Information

• The Aeroplanes of the Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing) by J. M. Bruce. Published in 1982. ISBN 0-370-30084-x
• The Encyclopedia of British Military Aircraft by Chaz Bowyer. Published in 1982. ISBN 1-85841-031-2
• [1] Wikipedia
• Warplanes of the World 1918-1939 by Michael J. H. Taylor. Published 1981. ISBN 0-7110-1078-1
• Wikipedia