Avro 706 Ashton
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Produced Variants Type 706 Ashton Mk.1 | High altitude research
aircraft based on the Tudor 2 airframe with reduced fuselage length. Four 5000 lb.st. Rolls-Royce Nene 5 & 6 powerplants. |
Type 706 Ashton Mk.2 | As Mk.1 specially fitted for high altitude powerplant research. | Type 706 Ashton Mk.3 |
As Mk.1 but featuring a shorter internal pressurised section
of fuselage.Two featured wing mounted bomb nacelles. |
Type 706 Ashton Mk.4 | As Mk.3 but featuring a pressurised ventral pannier for a bomb aimer. |
Serial Range | Type | Batch Qty | Conv. | Canc'd | Notes | 6 aircraft ordered from A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd., Chadderton,
to contract 6/Acft/3118. First flew September 1950. |
WB490 | Mk.1 | 1 | |
| Based on Tudor 2 airframe G-AJJV. |
WB491 | Mk.2 |
1 |
| |
Based
on Tudor 2 airframe G-AJJW. | WB492,
WB493, WE670 | Mk.3 | 3 | |
| Based on Tudor 2 airframes G-AJJX, 'JJY & 'JKA. |
WB494 | Mk.4 |
1 |
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Based
on Tudor 2 airframe G-AJJZ. | Total Production | 6 | | | |
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