Avro: Aircraft
From Graces Guide
Note: This is a sub-section of Avro
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.
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| 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 -
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. |
| 679 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 -
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 -
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| 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 -
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