List of Avro Aircraft Types
Type
Name
Notes
Photograph
636
636
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Dual purpose military biplane
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Only four built and these went to the Irish Air Corps
641
641 Commodore
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Started life as a variant of the Avro Cadet
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Only five built as it entered the market before this type of aircraft became popular in Britain
642
642 Eighteen
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Development of the Avro Ten
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Various uses including domestic flights, delivering British newspapers to France, and carrying bullion from Paris to London
652 & 652A
652A Anson
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More Ansons were built than any other Avro aircraft (11,020 units)
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Prolific trainer of heavy bomber crews
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Avro Anson G-AGPG 'Aggy Paggy' cockpit on display at the Avro Heritage Museum
679
679 Manchester
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Twin-engined World War II bomber
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Plagued by engine unreliability
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Withdrawn from service in 1942
683
683 Lancaster
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Legendary World War II heavy bomber
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Delivered two-thirds of all bombs dropped over Europe by the RAF
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Brought home British POWs and dropped food parcels when hostilities ceased
685
685 York
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Used extensively during the Berlin airlift in 1949
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Churchill used a York in VIP configuration called the Avalon
688
688 Tudor Mk 1, 3, 4 & 8
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First British pressurised airliner
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Participated in the Berlin airlift
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Two Tudor Mk 4's lost over the Atlantic in mysterious circumstances
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Testbed for the Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet
689
689 Tudor Mk 2, 5, 6 & 7
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Designed as a large airliner but performed poorly during flight trials
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Tudor 2 G-AGSU tragically crashed on 23rd August 1947, killing Roy Chadwick and test pilot S.A. Thorn
691
691 Lancastrian
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Developed from the Lancaster as an interim airliner
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Ran Trans-Atlantic services
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First aeroplane to circumnavigate the globe in less than a week