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Avro 688/9 Tudor

YEAR BUILT:

1945

NUMBER BUILT:

37

WINGSPAN:

120 ft

LENGTH:

up to 85 ft 3 in

HEIGHT:

20 ft 11 in

CREW:

5 (+ 32 or 42 passengers)

MAX SPEED:

up to 295 mph

POWERPLANT:

4 x Rolls Royce Merlin (1,770 hp)

ARMAMENT:

None

Avro Tudor (Type 689)

NOTES:

Designed as a large airliner but performed poorly during flight trials. Tudor 2 G-AGSU tragically crashed on 23rd August 1947, killing Roy Chadwick and test pilot S.A. Thorn.

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