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Produced Variants
Type 533 Manchester Mk.I
Three seat long distance photo-reconnaissance fighter or short range day or night
bomber to meet RAF Specifications Type IV, VI & VIII. Two 320 h.p. A.B.C. Dragonfly I powerplants.
Type 533A Manchester Mk.II
As Type 523 with
two 300 h.p. Siddeley Puma powerplants.
Type 533B Manchester Mk.III
As Type 523 with
two 400 h.p. Liberty 12 powerplants.
1 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Newton Heath, Manchester,
to contracts AS.17437/18 and 35A/1163/C1064. Built at Manchester but erected at Hamble. First flew December 1918.
F3493
Mk.I
1
1 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Newton
Heath, Manchester, to contracts AS.17437/18 and 35A/1163/C1064. Built at Manchester but erected at Hamble. First flew
May 1919.
F3492
Mk.II
1
1 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Newton
Heath, Manchester, to contracts AS.17437/18 and 35A/1163/C1064. Built at Manchester but erected at Hamble. See note 1.
Jackson
[1] gives airframe only built. Air Britain register [2] gives delivered to AES/AEE 21 October 1919, although this author has
seen nothing else to confirm this.
Production References
Avro
Aircraft Since 1908, A.J. Jackson (Putnam, 1965 & 1990)
Royal Air Force Aircraft J1 -
J9999, RAF Aircraft Register Series (Air-Britain Publications, 1987)
