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Avro 539
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Produced Variants | Type 539 | Single seat twin float seaplane racer for the 1919 Schneider
Trophy Race.. One 240 h.p. Siddeley Puma powerplant. | | Type 539A | Type 539 with revised fin and rudder. This was later converted
into a landplane. | | Type
539B | Type 539A landplane with One 450 h.p. Napier Lion powerplant. |
C/n | Initial
Registration | Notes | | 1 aircraft built by A.V. Roe
& Co. Ltd., Hamble, Hants, for the 1919 Schneider Trophy race. First flew August 1919. | | 539/1 |
G-EALG |
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| Type 539 converted into the Type 539A by A.V. Roe &
Co. Ltd., Hamble, Hants, for the 1919 Schneider Trophy race. First flew September 1919. | | 539A/1 |
G-EALG |
Converted
to landplane at Hamble in 1920 without change to its designation. | | Type 539A converted into the Type 539B by A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Hamble, Hants. First
flew July 1921. | | 539B/1 | G-EAXM | |
Total Production 1 | Total Conversions
(2) |
| Type |
Built New |
Conv. |
Canc'd |
Total |
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Type 539 |
1 |
2 |
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(1) |
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1 |
2 |
0 |
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Production References - Avro Aircraft
Since 1908, A.J. Jackson (Putnam, 1965 & 1990)
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