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. |
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 |
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Type |
Built New |
Conv. |
Canc'd |
Total |
Type D |
7 |
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7 |
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7 |
0 |
0 |
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Notes - Not a
c/n but a designator to define the production order of the Type D.
Production References Avro Aircraft Since 1908, A.J. Jackson (Putnam, 1965 & 1990) British
Aeroplanes 1914-18, J.M. Bruce (Putnam, 1957) British Aircraft Before The
Great War, Michael H. Goodall and Albert E. Tagg (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001)
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