Avro Aircraft

Avro I Biplane 1908 Alliot Verdon Roe, the founder of Avro, the firm that was to play such a ... read more ... Avro I Triplane 1909 Avro II Triplane 1910 read more ... Avro III Triplane 1910 Avro IV Triplane 1910 The Type D is notable in two respects. First, the prototype was at one point ... read more ... Avro Type D 1911 Avro 500 / Type E 1912 Avro Type F 1912 Avro Type G 1912 One aircraft only, first flown in February 1912; converted into the Lakes Sea Bird in ... read more ... Avro Duigan Biplane 1912 Avro Burga Monoplane 1912 In 1912 A. V. Roe and Company built a shoulder-wing monoplane to the designs of Lt. ... read more ... Non-specialist readers will know, and perhaps remember, the participation in World War II of such ... read more ... Avro 504 1913 Avro 501 1913 Avro 503 / Type H 1913 Avro 511 1914 Avro 510 1914 Avro 508 1914 Built for the Admiralty early in 1916, the Avro 519 single seat biplane bore a distinct ... read more ... Avro 519 1916 Avro 521 1916 The Avro 521 two-seat fighter, which was flown late in 1915, was something of a hybrid ... read more ... Flown for the first time in May 1916, the Pike three-seat twin-engined biplane was designed primarily ... read more ... Avro 523 Pike 1916 Avro 527 1916 The final two-seat fighter derivative of the basic Avro 504 design, the Avro 527 was built ... read more ... Avro 528 1916 Avro 529 1917 Of relatively clean aerodynamic design by contemporary standards and featuring a ducted propeller spinner, the Avro 530 ... read more ... Avro 530 1917 Avro 531 Spider 1918 An unsponsored private-venture single-seat fighter designed by Roy Chadwick and flown for the first time in April ... read more ... Avro 533 Manchester 1918 Avro 534 / 543 / 554 Baby 1919 Britain's first post-World War I practical light aircraft was the Avro Baby, which was fitted with ... read more ... Avro 536 / 546 1919 Avro 539 1919 Avro 548 1919 Avro 547 1920 Avro 552 1921 Avro 555 Bison 1921 Deck-landing reconnaissance and Fleet gunnery spotting biplane, first flown in 1921. Twelve Bison Is built ... read more ... Three-seat heavy bomber of 1922 powered by a 485kW Rolls-Royce Condor III engine. Fifteen built ... read more ... Avro 549 Aldershot 1922 Avro 558 1923 Avro 560 1923 Avro 561 / 563 Andover 1924 Similar in many respects to the Aldershot, the 561 Andover was produced to fly the ... read more ... Avro 557 Ava 1924 Avro 562 Avis 1925 Avro 571/572 Buffalo 1926 Avro 566 Avenger 1926 Aerodynamically one of the cleanest fighter biplanes of its era, the Avenger, designed as a private ... read more ... Wooden two-seat Avro 581 Avian powered by a 52kW Armstrong Siddeley Genet engine; built for ... read more ... Avro 581 Avian 1927 Avro 584 Avocet 1927 The Avocet was designed to the requirements of Specification 17/25, which, issued in June 1926, called ... read more ... One prototype, first flown in July 1928. No production. read more ... Avro 604 Antelope 1928 Avro 621 Tutor 1929 The original Avro Trainer of 1929 was designed as a replacement for the Avro 504N ... read more ... Avro 618 Ten 1929 Avro 619 Five 1929 Avro 626 Prefect 1930 Avro 624 Six 1930 One aircraft only, conversion of unfinished Avro 608 Hawk. Completed as Avro 627 Mailplane. Converted ... read more ... Avro 627 Mailplane 1931 Avro 631 / 643 Cadet 1932 Avro 638 Club Cabet 1933 Avro 640 Cadet 1933 Avro 639 Cabin Cadet 1933 Avro 642/2m 1934 Avro 642/4m 1934 Avro 652 Anson 1935 The Anson was derived from the Avro 652 - two of which were built to ... read more ... Avro 641 Commodore 1935 Avro 636 1935 The Manchester was a twin-engined, medium-range bomber. First flown in prototype form in July 1939 ... read more ... Avro 679 Manchester 1939 Avro 683 Lancaster 1941 Most famous of all Avro military aircraft and without doubt the most successful heavy night ... read more ... The York transport aircraft was developed from the Lancaster bomber. The original prototype first flew ... read more ... Avro 685 York 1942 Avro 691 Lancastrian 1943 The Lancastrian was a high-speed long-range transport conversion of the Lancaster bomber. The first conversions ... read more ... The last piston-engined bomber to serve with the RAF, the Lincoln conformed to Specification B.14/43 ... read more ... Avro 694 Lincoln 1944 Avro Tudor 1945 The original Type 688 Tudor was conceived in 1943 to Specification 29/43 as a commercial ... read more ... The Lancastrian, a high-speed transport derived from the Lancaster bomber, was an ideal ... read more ... Avro 691 Lancastrian Jet 1946 Avro 701 Athena 1948 Two-seat trainer designed (to Specification T.7/45) for advanced flying training, day and night navigation, gunnery, ... read more ... Built primarily to carry out extensive research into the behaviour of delta wings at low ... read more ... Avro 707 1949 Avro 696 Shackleton 1949 The Shackleton was a maritime reconnaissance aircraft with a stressed skin fuselage and Avro Tudor ... read more ... Large research aircraft, six of which were built for the Ministry of Supply to act ... read more ... Avro 706 Ashton 1950 Avro 698 Vulcan 1952 The first jet bomber to employ the delta-wing configuration. The original Avro 698 Vulcan prototype ... read more ...