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Avro 521

YEAR BUILT:

1916

NUMBER BUILT:

1 (+?)

WINGSPAN:

30 ft

LENGTH:

28 ft 2 in

HEIGHT:

9 ft 10 in

CREW:

2

MAX SPEED:

94.6 mph

POWERPLANT:

1 x 110 hp Clerget

ARMAMENT:

1 x 0.303 Lewis gun

Avro 521 At Farnborough, January 1916.

NOTES:

Two-seater fighter trainer. The prototype crashed on 21st September 1916, killing its pilot Lt W.H.S. Garnett. The RFC ordered 25 aircraft but not all were completed.

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