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Avro Type D

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Produced Variants

Type D
 
Single (as noted) or two seat tractor biplane with triangular girder fuselage. Various single 35 h.p. to 60 h.p. powerplants as indicated.


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Produced Order (Note 1)
Initial Registration
Notes
 7 aircraft  built by A.V. Roe & Co., Brownsfield Mills, Manchester, and assembled at Brooklands in 1911.
 1  (none)  One 35 h.p. Green C.4 powerplant. First flew April 1911. To Cdr Oliver Schwann in June 1911 and converted it to a floatplane at Barrow-in-Furness. 
     Transferred to Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough, in late 1912 and allocated Naval serial 26.
 2  (none)  One 60 h.p. ENV Type F powerplant. Intended for the Daily Mail Circuit of Britain Race; lengthened fuselage and reduced span lower wings.
 3  (none)  One 35 h.p. Green C.4 powerplant, lengthened fuselage of aircraft no.2. Eventually to Avro School, Brooklands.
 4  (none)  Single seater. One 45 h.p. Green powerplant, lengthened fuselage of aircraft No.2.
 5  (none)  35 h.p.Green powerplant, lengthened fuselage and sesquiplane wings of aircraft No.2.
 6  (none)  Single seater. 35 h.p. Viale powerplant, lengthened fuselage of aircraft No.2. To Avro School, Brooklands.
 7  (none)  50 h.p. Isaacson powerplant, lengthened fuselage of aircraft No.2. To Avro School, Brooklands.
Total Production   7




Production Summary

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All Aircraft By Type
Type Built New Conv. Canc'd Total
 Type D 7     7
  7 0 0  




Notes
  1. Not a c/n but a designator to define the production order of the Type D.

Production References
  1. Avro Aircraft Since 1908, A.J. Jackson (Putnam, 1965 & 1990)
  2. British Aeroplanes 1914-18, J.M. Bruce (Putnam, 1957)
  3. British Aircraft Before The Great War, Michael H. Goodall and Albert E. Tagg (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001)

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