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List of Avro Aircraft Types

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Photograph

636

636

Dual purpose military biplane
Only four built and these went to the Irish Air Corps

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641

641 Commodore

Started life as a variant of the Avro Cadet
Only five built as it entered the market before this type of aircraft became popular in Britain

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642

642 Eighteen

Development of the Avro Ten
Various uses including domestic flights, delivering British newspapers to France, and carrying bullion from Paris to London

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652 & 652A

652A Anson

More Ansons were built than any other Avro aircraft (11,020 units)
Prolific trainer of heavy bomber crews
Avro Anson G-AGPG 'Aggy Paggy' cockpit on display at the Avro Heritage Museum

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679

679 Manchester

Twin-engined World War II bomber
Plagued by engine unreliability
Withdrawn from service in 1942

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683

683 Lancaster

Legendary World War II heavy bomber
Delivered two-thirds of all bombs dropped over Europe by the RAF
Brought home British POWs and dropped food parcels when hostilities ceased

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685

685 York

Used extensively during the Berlin airlift in 1949
Churchill used a York in VIP configuration called the Avalon

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688

688 Tudor Mk 1, 3, 4 & 8

First British pressurised airliner
Participated in the Berlin airlift
Two Tudor Mk 4's lost over the Atlantic in mysterious circumstances
Testbed for the Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet

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689

689 Tudor Mk 2, 5, 6 & 7

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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691

691 Lancastrian

Developed from the Lancaster as an interim airliner
Ran Trans-Atlantic services
First aeroplane to circumnavigate the globe in less than a week

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