British Aircraft Manufacturing Swallow
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Type Description
- L.25C 1A Swallow I
- Two-seat low wing all-wooden cantilever monoplane, with tandem cockpits, based on the German Klemm L25. It differed from the German original with its more powerful engines and local strengthening to meet British airworthiness requirements. Typically one 85 h.p. Pobjoy Cataract II powerplant, but also 75 h.p. British-Salmson A.D.9R or 75 h.p. Pobjoy R as noted.
- Swallow II
- As Swallow I but featuring modified structure to simplify production with the curved wing tips, rudder and tailplane inherited from the Klemm original being made straight and with revised fuselage top decking.. One 85 h.p. Pobjoy Cataract II, 90 h.p. Pobjoy Cataract III or 90 h.p. Blackburn Cirrus Minor powerplant as noted.
| Swallow II Specification | |||||||||
| Span | Length | Height | Wing Area | Empty Wt | Max AUW | Cruise Speed | Maximum Speed | Range | Service Ceiling |
| 42 ft 9 in | 26 ft 3 in | 7 ft | 219.5 sq ft | 960 lb | 1500 lb | 90 mph/ 78 kn | 104 mph/ 90 kn | 420 mi | 17000 ft |
| 13.03 m | 8 m | 2.13 m | 20.39 m2 | 435 kg | 680 kg | 145 km/h | 167 km/h | 676 km | 5182 m |
Production Details
Swallow I
| C/n | Initial Registration |
Notes |
| VH-URZ aircraft built by the British Klemm Company, Hanworth, Middlesex, between November 1933 and January 1935. | ||
| 1 | G-ACMK | Salmson A.D.9R. To Cyril Eustace Berens, Studland, Dorset. To EI-ADS. |
| 2 | G-ACMZ | To John Henry Payto Verney, Lord Willoughby de Broke, Woodley House, Kineton. |
| 3 | G-ACVW | To Sir John E Carberry, Nairobi, Kenya (ntu?). To Luke Theodore Lillingston, Leicester. |
| 4 | VP-KBB | To William G D Hay-Nichols, Mombasa, Kenya. Impressed into KAAU as K21 September 1939. |
| 5 | G-ACNU | To Major Herbert Musker, Rushford Hall, Thetford. |
| 6 | G-ACOE | To British Klemm Aeroplane Co Ltd, Hanworth. To Germany in May 1936 as D-ECOE. |
| 7 | G-ACON | To Capt Archibald Douglas Crabb. |
| 8 | G-ACOW | Pobjoy R. To Capt The Hon Lionel John Olive Lambart RN, Sherborne, Dorse. Impressed as X5010. |
| 9 | G-ACSN | To Spain January 1935 as EC-XXA. Later to To Spanish AF as 30-22. To EC-CAP. |
| 10 | G-ACPJ | To The Rt Hon Algernon George deVere Capell, 8th Earl of Essex, Lydstep House, Penally. |
| 11 | G-ACRD | To the Rt. Hon. Frederick Edward Guest, Hanworth. Impressed as X5011. Also allocated X9429 in error. |
| 12 | G-ACSO | To Wrightson Aircraft Sales Ltd, Heston. |
| 13 | Not used | |
| 14 | G-ACVV | To Edward Catesby Paget, Plaxtol, nr Sevenoak. |
| 15 | G-ACUB | To the Aberdeen Flying School Ltd, Dyce. |
| 16 | G-ACUF | To John Leonard MacAlpine, Clitheroe, Lancs. |
| 17 | G-ACUM | To Arthur Sebag-Montefiore, London. |
| 18 | G-ACWA | To Edwin Parry. Impressed as X5008. |
| 19 | VP-KBK | To Sir John E Carberry, Nairobi, Kenya. |
| 20 | G-ACXD | To Albert Batchelor, Broadstairs. To OY-DOL. |
| 21 | G-ACXE | To the Aberdeen Flying School Ltd, Dyce. |
| 22 | G-ACTP | To Major Herbert Musker, Thetford. |
| 23 | G-ACXS | To the Aberdeen Flying School Ltd, Dyce. |
| 24 | VH-USH | To Adastra Aerial Surveys Ltd, NSW, Australia |
| 26 | G-ACYY | To Ilford Aviation Co. Ltd, Abridge. |
| 27 | VT-AGA | To S.N. Chowdhury, Calcutta, India. |
| 28 | G-ACZK | to British Klemm Aeroplane Co Ltd, Hanworth. To F/O E.J. Dease, Kildonan, Eire in January 1935 as EI-ABD. |
| 29 | VH-URZ | To Adastra Aerial Surveys Ltd, NSW, Australia |
| 31 | VH-UTA | To J.F. Jackson, St George, Qld, Australia. |
| 29 | VH-URZ | To Adastra Aerial Surveys Ltd, NSW, Australia |
| Total Production 28 | ||
Swallow II
| C/n | Initial Registration |
Notes |
| aircraft built by the British Aircraft Manufacturing Company, Hanworth, between May 1935 and July 1938. | ||
| 400 | G-ADJL | Pobjoy Cataract II. To Capt Geoffrey Reginald Devereux Shaw, Long Buckley, Rugby. |
| 401 | G-ADJM | Pobjoy Cataract II. To Reginald Branston, Fen Ditton, Cambridge. |
| 402 | G-ADJN | Pobjoy Cataract II. To James Herbert Lonsdale Musker. |
| 403 | VH-UTQ | Pobjoy Cataract II. To T M Bowman, Muswellbrook, NSW, Australia. |
| 404 | G-ADLD | Pobjoy Cataract II. To Group Capt Malcolm Grahame Christie, London. |
| 405 | G-ADMB | Pobjoy Cataract II. To Lt Col Howard Lister Cooper, Woodyates Manor, Salisbury. |
| 406 | G-ADMF | Pobjoy Cataract II. To Harold Edward Hudson, Birmingham. To Weston Ltd, Leixlip, Eire in June 1949 as EI-AFF. |
| 407 | VH-UUH | Pobjoy Cataract II. To Newcastle Aero Club, Broadmeadow, NSW, Australia. |
| 408 | G-ADMX | Pobjoy Cataract II. To Capt Ian Constable Maxwell (of Pobjoy Airmotors Ltd), Rochester. |
| 409 | VH-UUM | Pobjoy Cataract II. To R.H.F. Hickson, Maylands WA, Australia. |
| 410 | G-ADPS | Pobjoy Cataract II. To Cotswold Aero Club Ltd, Churchdown. |
| 411 | G-ADPT | Pobjoy Cataract II. To Edinburgh Flying Club. |
| 412 | VH-UUJ | Pobjoy Cataract II. To Adastra Aerial Surveys Ltd, NSW, Australia. |
| 413 | G-ADSF | Pobjoy Cataract II. To the Rt. Hon. Frederick Edward Guest, London. |
| 414 | VH-UUN | Pobjoy Cataract II. To J.J. Connolly, Mascot, NSW, Australia. |
| 415 | G-ADXH | Pobjoy Cataract II. To the Leicestershire Aero Club Ltd, Braunstone. |
| 416 | G-AEAU | Pobjoy Cataract II. To the Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane Club Ltd, Whitchurch. |
| 417 | G-AECA | Pobjoy Cataract II. To Gerald Robert Armstrong, Middleham, Yorks & James Shand, Liverpool. To South Africa in 1947 as ZS-DAV. |
| 418 | G-AEAV | Pobjoy Cataract II. To the Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane Club Ltd, Whitchurch. |
| 419 | G-AECY | Pobjoy Cataract III. To John Reginald Grice, Grimsby. |
| 420 | VR-SAL | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Eric Newbold, Eastern Smelting Co., Penang. |
| 421 | G-AEDX | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Philip Raymond Burton, Burnt Green, Worcs & Victor M Desmond, Birmingham. Impressed as E5952 to contract H.546122/41. |
| 422 | OE-SSC | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Osterreich Fliegerschule, Wien, Austria. |
| 423 | OE-SSD | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Osterreich Fliegerschule, Wien, Austria. |
| 424 | G-AEHI | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Lt. Col. Guy Lenox Prendergast, Folkestone. |
| 425 | G-AEHB | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Philip Geoffrey Aldrich-Blake, London. |
| 426 | G-AEHK | Pobjoy Cataract III. To John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, The 6th Viscount Gort, London. Impressed as X5007. |
| 427 | G-AEHL | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Ralph Minto Wilson, London. Impressed as BK895 to contract B.25283/39. |
| 428 | G-AEIC | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Hubert Blount, Byams Farm, Willesley, Tetbury, Glos. |
| 429 | G-AEIG | Pobjoy Cataract III. To George Dawson, Lincoln. |
| 430 | G-AEIH | Pobjoy Cataract III. To William Arthur Phillips (of Aircraft Industries Corpn, financiers to BAMCo), Hanworth. Impressed as X5006. |
| 431 | G-AEIW | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Philip Geoffrey Aldrich-Blake, London. To Percy W Kennedy, Eire in August 1939 as EI-ABY. |
| 432 | SU-AAQ | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Osman Hamdi, Egypt. |
| 433 | G-AEAH | Pobjoy Cataract III. To British Aircraft Manufacturing Co Ltd, Bombay, India as VT-AIK. |
| 434 | VT-AHJ | Pobjoy Cataract III. To the The Bombay Flying Club Ltd, Juhu, India. To U.K. as G-AEZM. |
| 435 | ZK-AEN | Pobjoy Cataract III. To R.L. Wigley, Timaru, New Zealand. |
| 436 | G-AEGM | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Liverpool and District Aero Club, Hooton. |
| 437 | G-AEFM | Pobjoy Niagara. To Capt Douglas Rudolf Pobjoy, Aylesford, Kent. |
| 438 | G-AEGN | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Liverpool and District Aero Club, Hooton. |
| 439 | VT-AHP | Pobjoy Cataract III. To The Madras Flying Club Ltd, Madras, India. |
| 440 | VT-AHS | Pobjoy Cataract III. To The Delhi Flying Club Ltd, New Delhi, India. |
| 441 | G-AEIB | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To the Doncaster Aero Club Ltd, Doncaster, April 1938. |
| 442 | G-AEKG | Pobjoy Cataract III. To the Eastbourne Flying Club Ltd, Wilmington. |
| 443 | G-AEKC | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To the Yorkshire Aviation Services Country Club Ltd, Newton House, Leeming. |
| 444 | G-AEKB | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To John James Lister, Doncaster. Impressed as 3568M |
| 445 | G-AELI | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To William Courtenay, Carshalton. |
| 446 | G-AELH | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Philip Geoffrey Aldrich-Blake, London. Impressed as BK896 to contract B.25283/39. |
| 447 | G-AELV | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. |
| 448 | G-AELJ | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Capt Alastair Edward Henry Campbell, Catterick. |
| 449 | G-AELG | Pobjoy Cataract III. To the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Aeo Club Ltd, Woolsington. To P A Doyle, Eire, in September 1962 as EI-AMU. |
| 450 | VT-AIA | Pobjoy Cataract III. To The Bombay Flying Club Ltd, Bombay, India. |
| 451 | VT-AHX | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Dr Francis Maxwell, New Delhi, India. |
| 452 | G-AEMD | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Florence Mary Morris-Davies, Guestling, Sussex. |
| 453 | G-AEMS | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Liverpool and District Aero Club, Hooton. |
| 454 | G-AEMV | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To George Western, East Finchley. |
| 455 | G-AENC | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Alexander James Cormack, Edinburgh. |
| 456 | G-AEMW | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Murray Campbell Scarlett, Dundee. Originally regd to theEastbourne Fling Club, but probably not delivered. |
| 457 | G-AEOW | Pobjoy Cataract III. To the London Air Park Flying Club Ltd, Hanworth in June 1938. |
| 458 | G-AEOZ | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Cortlandt Drew Godfrey, Neath. |
| 459 | VT-AIM | Pobjoy Cataract III. To the British Aircraft Manufacturing Co Ltd, Bombay, India. |
| 460 | G-AEVD | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Alexander James Cormack, Edinburgh. |
| 461 | VT-AIG | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To The Bombay Flying Club Ltd, Bombay, India; to UK in August 1937 as G-AFBB, but sold to G Elliot, Bowral NSW, Australia as VH-AAB in October 1937. |
| 462 | G-AFCL | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Walter Lawrence Hope, Hampton, Middlesex. |
| 463 | VT-AIH | Pobjoy Cataract III. To HH The Maharaja of Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India. To L. O. Pound, Colombo, Ceylon in January 1941 as VP-CAF. To CinC East Indies Station for RN communications duties in June 1942 as MP491. |
| 464 | G-AFES | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Percy William Kennedy, Wallington. Still owned by Kennedy, regd EI-ABX in July 1939 . |
| 465 | G-AERI | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. |
| 466 | G-AERK | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Albert Batchelor, Broadstairs. |
| 467 | G-AFGC | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Sir Derwent Hall-Caine, London and Thomas Herbert Clayton, Ashford. Impressed as BK893 to contract B.25283/39. To Bertram Arden & Co, Trapnell, Exeter in September 1943 and restored to G-AFGC in February 1946. |
| 468 | G-AERR | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Hubert Newton Peake, Cherrys Field, Sulgrave, nr Banbury. To Adela Mary Charlotte Matthews-Naper, Meath, Eire in December as EI-AFD. |
| 469 | G-AFGD | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Sir Sir Derwent Hall-Caine, London and Thomas Herbert Clayton, Ashford. Impressed as BK897 to contract B.25283/39. To Bertram Arden & Co, Trapnell, Exeter in September 1943 and restored to G-AFGD in August 1974; to Bertram Arden, Exeter, Charles Alfred Cook, Llanduff, Cardiff, John Hughes, Rogerstone, Gwent, Donald Stephen Prout, Thornbury, Glos & Alfred Thomas Williams, Newport, Gwent. |
| 470 | G-AFGE | Pobjoy Cataract III. To Sir Derwent Hall-Caine, London and Thomas Herbert Clayton, Ashford. Impressed as BK894 to contract B.25283/39. To Bertram Arden & Co, Trapnell, Exeter in September 1943 and restored to G-AGFE in May 1946. |
| 471 | G-AESL | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To the Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane Club Ltd. Impressed as 3412M. |
| 472 | G-AFIG | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. |
| 473 | G-AESI | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To the Leicestershire Aero Club Ltd, Braunstone. |
| 474 | G-AEVC | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To the Cinque Ports Flying Club Ltd, Lympne. |
| 475 | G-AEVZ | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To the Hull Aero Club (1934) Ltd, Hedon. To Fundacion Infante de Orleans, Sabadell in August 2003 as EC-IMP. |
| 476 | G-AEWB | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Linda Rhodes-Moorhouse, London. |
| 477 | G-AEWH | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To The Midland Bank Flying Club, Hanworth. |
| 478 | G-AEWI | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To The Midland Bank Flying Club, Hanworth. |
| 479 | G-AEXH | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Philip Raymond Burton & Victor Michael Desmond, Birmingham. Impressed as 3636M. |
| 480 | G-AEYV | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To the Cinque Ports Flying Club Ltd, Lympne. |
| 481 | G-AEYW | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To the Cinque Ports Flying Club Ltd, Lympne. |
| 482 | G-AFBC | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To The Midland Bank Flying Club, Hanworth. Impressed as BJ575 to contract B.161918/40. |
| 483 | G-AFGS | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To W.S. Shackleton Ltd, Heston; to Harold Randall Brocas Waters, London. |
| 484 | G-AFER | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Stanley Lawrence, Alfreton, Derbyshire. |
| 485 | G-AFGV | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To the Aero Club Ltd, Doncaster. To MF Murray, Weston in August 1950 as EI-AFN. |
| 486 | G-AFHC | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Peter Mursell, Kirdford, Sussexl. |
| 487 | G-AFHD | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Flt Lt Richard Hatt Noble Graham, RAF Odiham. |
| 488 | G-AFHH | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Major Alexander Willis Whittet, Weybridge. |
| 489 | G-AFHR | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To W.S. Shackleton Ltd; to the Otago Aero Club, NZ as ZK-AGO. Impressed in September 1939 as NZ583, but found unsuitable and returned to owner the following year. To ZK-AGR. |
| 490 | G-AFHS | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To W.S. Shackleton Ltd; to John Heath, Findon, Sussex. |
| 491 | G-AFHK | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. |
| 492 | G-AFHL | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. |
| 493 | G-AFHM | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. To FN Murray, Weston in September 1948 as EI-AEC. |
| 494 | G-AFHN | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. |
| 495 | G-AFHO | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. |
| 496 | G-AFHP | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. |
| 497 | G-AFHU | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. |
| 498 | G-AFHV | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. |
| 499 | G-AFHW | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. |
| 500 | G-AFIH | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. To R Stuart, Leixlip in June 1952 as EI-AGA. |
| 501 | G-AFII | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. |
| 502 | G-AFIJ | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. To P Scharer, Grenchen in June 1939 as HB-AKI. |
| 503 | G-AFIK | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. |
| 504 | G-AFIL | Blackburn Cirrus Minor I. To Blackburn Aircraft Ltd., for No.4 E.R.F.T.S. Brough. |
| Total Production 105 | ||
Production Summary
All Aircraft By Type
| Type | Built New | Conv | Canc'd | Total |
| Swallow I (Salmson A.D.9R) | 0 | 0 | ||
| Swallow I (Pobjoy Cataract II) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Swallow I (Pobjoy R) | 26 | 26 | ||
| Swallow II (Pobjoy Cataract II) | 19 | 19 | ||
| Swallow II (Pobjoy Cataract III) | 38 | 38 | ||
| Swallow II (Blackburn Cirrus Minor I) | 47 | 47 | ||
| Swallow II (Pobjoy Niagara) | 1 | 1 | ||
| 132 | (0) | 0 |
Production References
- British Civil Aircraft Since 1919, Vol 1, A.J. Jackson (Putnam, 1973)
- British Light Aeroplanes 1920 - 1940, Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume (GMS Enterprises, 2000)
- Impressments Logs, Peter W. Moss (Air Britain Publications, 1962-66)
- British Isles Civil Aircraft Register 1919-2011 (LAAS International)
- https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/BK_BAMco.pdf
- http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/vt-aaa.pdf
- http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/home.html
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