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Produced Variants
Type 534 Baby
Single seat sports equal span, single bay biplane of wire braced fabric covered wooden construction,
with 'comma' style rudder and no fin. One 35 h.p. Green powerplant.
Type 534A Water Baby
Twin
float seaplane version of Type 534 featuring a large curved fin.
Type 534B Baby
As Type 534 with plywood covered fuselage and reduced span lower wing.
Type 534C Baby
Racing version of Type
534 with reduced span on both wings.
Type 534D Baby
Tropical version of type 534 built to the orders of Col. E. Villiers.
Type
543 Baby
Two seat variant of type 534. One 60 h.p. ADC Cirrus
I powerplant.
Type 554 Antarctic Baby
Two
seat photgraphic survey development of the projected Type 544. One 80 hp Le Rhone powerplant.
1
aircraft built by A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Hamble, Hants. First flew July 1920.
543/1
G-EAUM
initially
retained by A.V. Roe. To L.E.R. Bellairs and F.G. Miles, November 1927, who replaced the Green with a 60 h.p. ADC Cirrus
I powerplant. New c/n 5062.
One aircraft
modified by H.G. Leigh in 1920. The original wing was replaced with a short, conventional, shoulder-mounted wing with full-span
ailerons and above it was a forward staggered stack of six very narrow chord wings of about the same span as the lower wing.
The provenance of this machine is unknown, but there were a number of unused airframes in store, so it was probably one of
these that was used by Leigh. It is unknown if the machine actually flew.
Production References
Avro
Aircraft Since 1908, A.J. Jackson (Putnam, 1965 & 1990)
Soviet Aircraft and Aviation 1917-1941,
Lennart Andersson (Putnam, 1994)