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Produced Variants

Type 523 Pike	Three seat long distance photo-reconnaissance fighter or short range day or night bomber to meet RAF Specification Types IV, VI & VII. Two 160 h.p. Sunbeam powerplants driving pusher propellers.
Type 523A Pike	As Type 523 with two 150 h.p. Green powerplants, initially with pusher propellers but later converted to tractor configuration. Flown with both single and triple fin arrangements.
Type 529	Three seat long range bomber for the RNAS. Enlarged version of the Type 523 with two 190 h.p. Rolls-Royce Falcon powerplants.
Type 529A	As Type 529 with two 230 h.p. Galloway-built B.H.P. powerplants

Projected Variants

Type 523B	As Type 523 with higher powered Sunbeam powerplants.
Type 523C	As Type 523 with twin fins and rudders. 190 h.p. Rolls-Royce powerplants.

Type 523 Pike

Serial Range	C/n	Type	Batch Qty	Conv.	Canc'd	Notes
1 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Newton Heath, Manchester to contract AS.2261 for the RNAS. Built at Manchester but erected at Hamble. Delivered January 1916.
N523		523	1			To Works Order 2230
2 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Newton Heath, Manchester to contract  87/A/329 for the RFC. Built at Manchester but erected at Hamble. Delivered May 1916.
A316 - A317		523A	1		1	To Works Order 2231. A317 not completed
	Total Production		2		1

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Type 529

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Serial Range	C/n	Type	Batch Qty	Conv.	Canc'd	Notes
1 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Newton Heath, Manchester to contracts C.P.114876/16 & C.P.122495/16/X/23723 for the RNAS. Built at Manchester but erected at Hamble. First flew March 1917.
3694		529	1
1 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Newton Heath, Manchester originally as a Type 529 but built at Hamble as a Type 529A to contract AS.15292 for the RNAS. First flew October 1917.
3695		529A	1
	Total Production		2

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