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Airspeed AS.30 Queen Wasp

For a description of the format and data included in Production Tables, see here.

Produced Variants

AS.30 Queen Wasp Pilotless Target Aircraft to Specification 32/35 to meet the requirements of OR.29. One 350 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley 
  Cheetah IX powerplant.


Projected Variants

AS.38 Communications variant of AS.30 to T.7/37.
AS.50 Fighter trainer variant of AS.30 to T.24/40.

Production List Page Top
Serial Range
C/n
Batch Qty
Conv.
Canc'd
Notes
 2 aircraft ordered from Airspeed Ltd., Portsmouth, to contract  489567/36. Delivered in November and December, 1937.
 K8887 - K8888    2      
 140 aircraft ordered from Airspeed Ltd., Portsmouth, to contract  968560/38. Revised to 5 aircraft plus 10 engineless airframes. Eventually, 5 delivered in April, 1940 with five more not completed,
 the remainder cancelled.
 P5441 - P5445    5      
 P5446 - P5450        5  Construction started but not completed
 P5451 - P5480        30  
 P5496 - P5525        30  
 P5546 - P5565        20  
     -        50  No serials allocated.
 258 aircraft ordered from Airspeed Ltd., Portsmouth, to contract  B.55388/39. Cancelled.
 V5010 - V5057        48  
 V5073 - V5112        40  
 V5131 - V5180        50  
 V5206 - V5240        35  
 V5262 - V5306        45  
 V5322 - V5361        40  
 
Total Production
7
 
393
 



Production Summary

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All Aircraft By Type
Type Built New Conv. Canc'd Total
 AS.30 Queen Wasp 7   393 400
  7   393 400


Notes
  1. A total of 140 aircraft were ordered, but only 90 serials were allocated.

Production References
  1. Airspeed Aircraft Since 1931, H.A. Taylor (Putnam, 1970)
  2. Sitting Ducks and Peeping Toms, Michael I. Draper (Air Britain, 2011)
  3. RAF Aircraft Register Series, Various Volumes (Air-Britain Publications)
  4. RAF Air Historical Branch: Serial Ledger (Dept of Archive and Aviation Records, RAF Museum, Hendon, Records MF-1, MF-2)
  5. RAF Air Historical Branch: Contract Delivery Cards (Dept of Archive and Aviation Records, RAF Museum, Hendon, Records MFC-78-8-3)

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Page Revision History Page Top

Revised at Version 1.4.0
  • Added Specification and OR details for AS.30.
  • Added Note 1.

V1.4.4 Created by Roger Moss. Last updated August 2020