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Avro 531 Spider and 538
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Produced Variants Type 531 Spider
| Single seat sesquiplane fighter using many Type 504A components for ease of production, and featuring a Warren girder interplane bracing instead of conventional wire bracing.
110 h.p. Le Rhone or 130 h.p. Clerget powerplant. Private venture submission to RAF Specification Type II. |
Type 538
| Single seat communications aircraft, probably using many
components of the unfinished Type 531A but featuring conventional interplane struts with wire bracing. 150 h.p. Bentley
B.R.1 powerplant. |
Projected Variants
| Type 531A Spider | As Type
531 with conventional equal span two-bay wire-braced mainplanes. |
Serial Range | C/n | Batch Qty | Conv. | Canc'd | Notes | | 1 aircraft built by A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Newton Heath, Manchester.
Built at Manchester but erected at Hamble. First flew April 1918. | | none | | 1 | | | |
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Production | 1 | | | |
C/n | Initial
Registration | Notes | | 1 aircraft built by A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Newton
Heath, Manchester. First flew in May 1919. | | 538/1 | K-132/G-EACR | Retained
by Avro. | Total Production 1 |
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