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Roe Biplane & Triplanes
For a description of the format and data included in
Production Tables, see here.
Produced Variants | Roe I Biplane | Single seat pusher canard type biplane. One 6 h.p. JAP (later 24 h.p. Antoinette) powerplant. |
| Roe I Triplane | Single seat tractor triplane. One 6, 10 or 20 h.p. JAP powerplant. | | Roe II Triplane | Single seat tractor triplane. One 35 h.p. Green powerplant. | | Roe III Triplane | Two seat tractor triplane. One 35 h.p. JAP or Green powerplant. | | Roe IV Triplane | Single seat tractor triplane. One 35 h.p. Green powerplant. |
C/n | Initial
Registration | Notes |
| 1
aircraft built by A.V. Roe in Putney. Unsubstantiated first flight June 1908. | | (none) | (none) | |
Total Production
1 |
C/n | Initial
Registration | Notes |
| 1
aircraft begun by A.V. Roe in Putney for George Friswell in 1908. Not completed. | | (none) | (none) | Construction taken over by Friswell in 1909. |
| 2 aircraft begun by A.V. Roe in Putney and completed
at Lea Marshes, Walthamstow. First flew July, 1909. |
| (none) | (none) | | Total Production 2 | Total Production (Not Completed) 1 |
C/n | Initial
Registration | Notes |
| 1
aircraft "Mercury" built by A.V. Roe & Co., Brownsfield Mills, Manchester. First flew April 1910. |
| (none) | (none) | | | 1 aircraft built by A.V. Roe & Co., Brownsfield Mills, Manchester for W.G. Windham. First flew May 1910. | | (none) |
(none) | |
Total
Production 2 |
C/n | Initial
Registration | Notes |
| 4
aircraft built by A.V. Roe & Co., Brownsfield Mills, Manchester. First flew
June 1910. | | (none) |
(none) | See Note
1 | Total Production 4 |
C/n | Initial
Registration | Notes |
| 1
aircraft built by A.V. Roe & Co., Brownsfield Mills, Manchester. First flew
September 1910. | | (none) |
(none) | |
Total
Production 1 |
All
Aircraft By TypeType | Delivered New | Canc'd | Roe I Biplane | 1 | | Roe I Triplane | 2 | 1 | Roe
II Triplane | 2 | | Roe III Triplane | 4 | | Roe IV Triplane | 1 | | | 9 | 1 |
Notes - Jackson [1], Harlin & Jenks [2]
and Goodall and Tagg [3] list only 4 machines:
- No.1 with a 35 h.p. JAP powerplant, first flown 24 June
1910
- No.2 with 35 h.p. Green powerplant, first flown 9 July 1910 and destroyed by fire while on the way to the Blackpool
Flying Meeting by train.
- No.3 with 35 h.p. Green powerplant, urgently built as a replacement for No.2. First flown
at Blackpool 1 August 1910 and destroyed in Boston, Mass., at the flying meeting on 8 September 1910. (Goodall and Tagg quote
the date incorrectly as 8 August 1910.)
- No.4 with 35 h.p. Green powerplant, ordered by the Harvard Aeronautical Society
and first flown at the Boston flying meeting on 12 September 1910.
Holmes [4] refers to 6 machines,
with the aircraft destroyed in Boston as No.5 plus one machine for Cecil Grace, but Jackson states that contemporary
reports of a machine built for Cecil Grace cannot be substantiated. It would seem that the figure of 4 machines is the most
reliable.
Production References Avro Aircraft Since 1908, A.J. Jackson (Putnam, 1965 & 1990) Avro
An Aircraft Album, E.A. Harlin and G.A. Jenks (Ian Allen,1973) British Aircraft Before
The Great War, Michael H. Goodall and Albert E. Tagg (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001) Avro:The
History of an Aircraft Company, H. Holmes (The Crowood Press, 2004)
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